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Karate Kid 

Ageless grandmaster Sonny Strong offers his secrets to longevity — and butt kicking.

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He heard them kicking and screaming in the basement. So Sonny Strong joined in. Forty-two years later, Grandmaster Sonny Strong, 79, still lugs his body to the downtown YMCA, on West Franklin Street, to teach karate classes. Style Weekly asked the…

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