Post-Dispatch photos: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Date: 5/24/2012 Album ID: 1475430
Photos by James Gallagher/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photographs by staff photographers
A Florissant home at 6354 Coventry Drive is set near a lake. The three-bedroom, two bath ranch home sold for $159,537 in 2009, and $29,590 last October. Photo by James Gallagher, jgallagher@post-dispatch.com
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A Florissant home at 12 Rissand Dr., sold for $99,900 in 2007, and for $24,860 in October. Photo by James Gallagher, jgallagher@post-dispatch.com
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A Ferguson home 371 Harvey Avenue in Ferguson, appears to sit empty as grass grows in the roof gutters. It sold for $117,000 in  2007 and $9,000 in 2011. Photo by James Gallagher, jgallagher@post-dispatch.com
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Lois Salwa Marshall from the St. Louis based Aalim Dance Company performs while balancing a sword atop her head during the Shakespeare Festival at Forest Park on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in St. Louis.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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View of a home at 1161 Mimeaux Drive in Spanish Lake on Monday, May 21, 2012.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Dan Belcher of Sandscapes works on a candy-themed sand sculpture at The Magic House Wednesday May 23, 2012 in Kirkwood.    Belcher, a 20-year professional sculptor who is working with 75 tons of sugar sand in the Sandcastle Beach area of the children's museum, will be working until June 3 but the sculpture will be in place through July 1. 
Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Aaron Likens, 29, combines the story of part of his life with an explanation of how someone with Asperger's syndrome sees the world. More than 100 people attended Likens' talk. He was ending a 15-city book tour promoting his book, Finding Kansas.

Photo by Harry Jackson Jr.
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Jeff Gans, 24, of Desoto, listens to Aaron Likens' speech. Gans has Asperger's syndrome, he says, and hearing Likens' story, affirmed everything I've known already.

photo by Harry Jackson Jr.
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Michelle Hill, right, of St. Louis listens intently to a talk by Aaron Likens. She has a 6-year-old son with autism and wanted to hear something that would help her help him. I wish I'd heard this years ago, she said after the speech. Next to her is her mother, Emma Lewis of St. Louis.
Photo by Harry Jackson Jr.
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A sonogram machine indicates the location of bad tissue as Dr. Steven Stahle peforms surgery on the right heel of William Johnson from Kirkwood on Friday, May 18, 2012, at the Advanced Surgery Center in Creve Coeur. The surgery, called FAST (Focused Aspiration of Soft Tissues) was recently approved by the FDA and involves the removal of bad tissue to speed up the recovery from certain types of injuries.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Dr. Steven Stahle talks with Gerre Langton from Des Peres about the conditionof her golfer's elbow prior to surgery on Friday, May 18, 2012, at the Advanced Surgery Center in Creve Coeur. The surgery, called FAST (Focused Aspiration of Soft Tissues) was recently approved by the FDA and involves the removal of bad tissue to speed up the recovery from certain types of injuries.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Dr. Steven Stahle uses a TX1 handpiece to remove bad tissue from the right elbow of Gerre Langton from Des Peres on Friday, May 18, 2012, at the Advanced Surgery Center in Creve Coeur. The surgery, called FAST (Focused Aspiration of Soft Tissues) was recently approved by the FDA and involves the removal of bad tissue to speed up the recovery from certain types of injuries.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Blues goaltender Jake Allen during a practice session before the St. Louis Blues first-round playoff game against the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at the Blues' training facility in the St. Louis Mills Shopping Mall in Hazelwood, Mo. 
Photo by Chris Lee, clee@post-dispatch.com
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