End of the road approaches for prominent Boston gun-control sign

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By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - An iconic sign bearing pro-gun-control messages that has hung near Fenway Park in Boston for almost two decades will soon lose its home. The 252-foot-long (77-meter-long) billboard - which features a counter tracking the more than 45,000 people killed by guns in the United States since the December 2012 attack on a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school - has been a prominent feature of Boston since real estate developer John Rosenthal ordered the first version for a parking garage in 1995. He sold the garage, which overlooks the heavily traveled Massachusetts Turnpike, to the owners of the Boston Red Sox a year ago and agreed for the sign to come down in March 2015.

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