At 14, when most girls were worried about sleepovers and painting their nails I was working my first job just to make sure I had lunch money in my school account.
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"I want to apologize for coming at you the way I did last year and expecting a handout, rather than working for it. All the programs I've been in have been handouts, you kno, and I mean it's not a bad thing, but I understand PL after Circle tonight..."
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The heart bleeds self hatred
The mind's filled with insecurities that run so low
Self esteem so Weak
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder
This past Sunday, 12 young people arrived for the Project Legacy Circle. Candles were lit, opening was read, and still youth kept arriving. They were Buddhist, Muslim, Christian and Atheist. Cambodian, South Sudanese, North Sudanese, African-American, Hispanic.
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…Girls who have been involved for three years talk about the shift that occurred internally for them when they realized they had to break connections with their families — end the emotional ties and break with the gang that their families expected them to die for. A girl takes the talking piece and says:
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…We talk about trauma, the effects of abuse, the rage, the difficulty
trusting. I talk to them about their fighting and self-hatred. A girl who was planning a fight earlier rolls onto her side and looks at me.