Best article I've read yet on Sean Taylor, the man

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But here in this upper-middle-class neighborhood, he was a sweet, smiling teenager who dazzled his teachers at the exclusive Gulliver Preparatory School when he transferred in midway through his sophomore year because his father thought he would have a better chance at college if he left the public school system.

Frank Gisonni, who taught marine biology to Taylor and Williams, remembered Sean as a bright child who mingled easily among the children of prestige at Gulliver.

Taylor met Jackie Garcia, the niece of actor Andy Garcia, at the school, and everyone felt they were destined to become a couple, Gisonni said. His senior year he was named prom king and he attended it wearing an all-white tuxedo and a white top hat. He even danced with the school's founder and matriarch, Marian Krutulis, who is in her 80s.

"She was very proud of him," Gisonni said. "He was such a charmer."

Family members bristle at the perception of Taylor as a brutish loner, and several would not speak to reporters because of it. Those who did said he was a good kid who lived in a solid neighborhood with his father and kept out of trouble.

washingtonpost.com