49:. Rob lived with his mother and grandparents and excelled in school while attending church and forming strong friendships in his neighborhood. When Rob was seven, his father was arrested for an alleged murder, convicted, and sent to prison. Rob visited him often in prison and his father remained an important part of his life. His mother worked long hours primarily in school and hospital cafeterias and sacrificed to send her son to
77:. He played on the school’s club water polo team, which he co-captained for two years. He worked in a cancer and infectious disease laboratory associated with the Yale Medical School. Peace also worked in the dining hall as a dishwasher and earned money selling marijuana to his classmates. Peace graduated in 2002 with honors. One of his roommates was Jeff Hobbs, an English major from
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93:, winning a Teacher of the Year award. He continued to work toward proving his father’s innocence until Robert Douglas was diagnosed and later lost to brain cancer, still in prison, when Peace was 26 years old. Peace began a new career working at
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