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Across

31 Pre-1991 map letters

32 Place to harvest your deepest secrets?

36 Part of a Braille character

39 Like many dad jokes

40 Italian wine hub

44 Logically flawed

46 Hit, as the gas

48 Equipment for identifying genuine island wreaths?

51 Dungeons & Dragons genre, briefly

52 Hungarian mathematician Paul

53 Frodo’s home, with “the”

54 Wine statistic

55 Baskerville Hall setting

56 Sign of deceit, and a phonetic hint to four puzzle answers

58 Beast of burden

59 Massage deeply

60 Workout output

61 Beast of burden

62 Needs to settle

63 Drops the ball

Down

1 Snooze loudly

2 Some website images

3 Linger longer than, as a welcome

4 Film buff’s choice

5 Jack in a rhyme

6 Kinkajou cousin

7 Sci-fi subject

8 First name of two Spice Girls

9 Hypotheticals 10 Monster Angus Thickburger seller 11 Adversary 13 Protect from light 15 Certain jumper’s need

17 Way up the slope

21 KitchenAid competitor

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Solutions

24 Apple variety

26 Rocker Nugent

29 Convention center attraction

30 Olive __

33 British __

34 Fighting

35 Astronaut Jemison

36 Word from the Greek for “two assumptions”

37 Oppressive

38 Tube tops?

41 Device that delivers a coat

42 Fifth, often, for a manual transmission

43 Downs

45 Cherish

46 Type

47 Part of a full house, maybe

49 Easter Island’s country

50 Little disputes

56 Box office sign

57 Female in a field

Kindness

: Continued From Page 18 notion that he comes off socially awkward. His words appear a bit contradictory considering some of the things he’s done over the years.

Although he was raised in the Catholic religion, Hogan said that he considers himself more spiritual. He doesn’t attend church but prefers to think that listening to different people talk about God gives him a better perspective.

“The biggest joy I get out of life is being of service to other people,” stressed Hogan. “It’s almost intoxicating to me.”

There was the time that he spotted an older lady on the beach who dragged some heavy bags of cat food to take care of some ferals.

“It was the middle of the summer and there were other grown men watching her struggle,” he said. “She was actually from Philadelphia and was very sick. She just came down to feed the cats.”

The woman has since died but Hogan found it incredulous that he was the only one to offer her help.

When he learned on social media that the bikes of two young boys had been stolen, he stepped in and bought them new ones. A woman who was obviously under the influence lost her keys at Walmart and Hogan strapped her into his back seat and made sure she got home safely.

“She wasn’t doing so well and a lot of people were making an effort to stay away from her,” Hogan shared. “I approached her and offered her the ride home. It didn’t matter to me that she was a hot mess.”

Social media posts continue to serve as a means for Hogan offering help to others. It hit him hard when he learned a young boy’s crab trap was stolen during the few minutes he put it into the water and ran home to the bathroom.

“He got it for his birthday, and it was really cool,” he said. “It was the color of the American fl ag, red white and blue.”

Hogan made contact with the family and not only picked up some crab traps, he also bought some fi shing poles and was extra thrilled when a Walmart employee learned what he was doing and added to the pile.

As the community rallied to bring clothes and household items to victims of a fi re a few years ago, Hogan decided to take a different approach.

“I knew the township was going to fi ll the void with clothing and things,” he explained. “I went with toys figuring it was the fi rst thing kids would think about.”

A young man’s admission that it was his grandmother’s dying wish to see the beach also caught Hogan’s attention. Fundraising efforts he spearheaded resulted in a beach compatible wheelchair.

Some of Hogan’s good deeds have been smaller is scale but left large impacts. Despite his trepidations with social anxiety, he has approached strangers on multiple occasions with random notes of kindness and given away lottery tickets.

One time he was putting stickers on one of the notes when he spotted two women by the side of his pickup truck. He added a smiley sticker to the notes, rolled down his window and handed them to the pair and drove away. He later found out that his gift had made it into the hands of a mother and daughter who hadn’t seen one another in a long time.

“It comes down to what you put out to the universe you’ll get back,” said Hogan. “But that’s not my reason for doing things. I believe everyone deserves a different type of energy and I want to give it to them.”

“People may forget the things you say and do,” Hogan reminded. “But people will never forget the way you make them feel.”

Hogan and his wife Christina are proud parents of 15-year-old Chase. Hogan also has a 21-year-old daughter named Faith Madison from a prior relationship.