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One of the paragraphs that I find most effective and eye-opening is this one:
All over the world girls are committing violent crimes, there not using just fists their using weapons as well. In Massachusetts a 17 year old slashed another girl with a broken bottle in the face just because she was talking to her boyfriend. Young girls are being arrested for violent crimes, the FBI"s uniform crime report stated the past 20 ...
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