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If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can__ imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America__ alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart _ and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.
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If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can__ imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America__ alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart _ and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

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