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rebel girls are changing the world

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once upon

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a time there , a little girl

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who love eating pizza let her friends friends

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her round or seconds been facilities

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and so theory

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printing was a marianna company

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but everyone caught her mari

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laurie was born july six two

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thousand and seven seen

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, family lived in flip this against against

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love living and let it

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was always so much to do

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or shopping at them all

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more you'd write her by the river been park

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or have have looks the stuffing so ball

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he added

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, at home he appeared

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and hometown pattern and people

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her little much nice

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story about my in

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her connection the flip it's

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, story about something we all need

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in order to survive water

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one more he was little

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you didn't think much about water

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one day and funny fifteen fine

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notice that the water running from the faucet in

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her kitchen floods

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when you

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it was the brown in recipe and

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it smells terrible

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when she tried drinking it it

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tasted even worse

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my family started getting grasses

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understand their , began

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reporting headaches her loss

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in a burning sensation burning their eyes

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even not a local authorities

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knew about the crisis as

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first nobody says in the help

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maureen her family the majority of

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flint residents are black and

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many clintonian were living below the

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poverty

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what is kind of catastrophe be addressed

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sastre if it happened in a wealthier white

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neighborhood

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it took a whole year before scientists began

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testing the waters and

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, finally did they discovered

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they water was contaminated would bacteria

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in would dangerous metal caught lead neither

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is especially bad for children and

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can start and prose and even chains

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brain be brain bit the

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government declared a state of emergency

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it was it safely use the water coming out of this

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the anymore

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resident hadn't thought of water for

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exit

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not just for drinks

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but the boil spaghetti strawberries

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your body or even

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breast even breast

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oh their daily tasks became so much harder

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than

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going to be

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every week the people of flint

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hathaway in long lines at government

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distribution centers to get cases of water

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for the families

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mine was worried

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the bush did she

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know that having clean water was water basic human

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right

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how had when some lot of the contaminated

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and why was it taken

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mana fixing

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one day murray in her mother went

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to the university of michigan flint campus

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but he joined a group of people protesting

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and demanding clean water

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author and michigan is tough and

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that's that's was usually code six

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milk hunting and

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murray was saddled up in a heavy which is us

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cities in a warm hat would

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see our on her she proudly

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held her profile

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that read passages is muslim

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hello my with the rest of the protesters

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they marched across the bridge

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the river financing

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you

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one woman held up a copy of her

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waterfield someone else

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series photographs of kids who is in effect

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is i'm led to termination

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and more immersive

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her fists and way for what he

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, the resilient see her community course

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it does have a a was

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speaking of for the rights

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and see help powerful

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after that more

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he kept going going protests growing

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with and for the people of flint she

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even more her whitefish purple little miss flint

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had access to so people that seem

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the great

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right

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the water crisis shadowing for

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two years the people of flint

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can use the water of their own faucets

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under investigation the environmental

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protection agency discovered that the water

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supply system i've been altered

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to save money and now

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thousands of paid to after sitting or corroded

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they knew the causes a problem but

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still there was no solution my

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was desperate to find a way to help the people

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think

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then one day in march

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twenty six seen she had an idea

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that would take this issue all the way to the top

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i'm going to write a letter to the president she

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told her mom

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her mom warned her

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millions of letters every day she

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than what mari to be disappointed the

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murray was unstoppable

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they have to try

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nectar possible

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hello my

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, and i'm eating so

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i live in michigan in i'm more

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commonly known around town as

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the

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one of the children that

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the adequately

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i've been doing my best sir martin house

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has ever seek out for the

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kids that lucien floor

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she sent a letter often the mail insight

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nazi get her hopes up too high

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but then a month later there

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was was in her mailbox some the white

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house

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the to her own america

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there's no more important title since

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citizen

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in i am so proud of them for using

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a voice golf on behalf

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of the children

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the whole murray that he was coming off

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let's see the situation for himself

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he wanted to make sure flip with getting all

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the help it eat it married

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, wait wait was going to meet

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the first black president of the united

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states barack obama

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when

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the day of president obama says it arrived

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murray was a bundle of nervous energy

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that he put on

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her official mental miss flint sas

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in a big phrase smile

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murray and her mother went to the local high

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school into a brick building

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would agree with

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the name a single malt liquor

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in would an american flag am a flag

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of the president

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standing and friend them waiting

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, my my

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president barack president my

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when right sams and gave him a gave has

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he was sold all he

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picked her up so he could have her back i

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wrote to you more exclaimed

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i know that's

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why i decided to town

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i'm gonna talk about you and my speech

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in all the good work you're doing the

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president said

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emma to have dinner thousand

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people crowded in the for them the

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, roared as president obama was on

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stage to give a speech murray

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said in said special said he liked to say

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because it say

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okay to any lady said

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the powder he looking as the need for

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change

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image he would make sure the drinking

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water was safe again then

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he pulled the audience about mori in her letters

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about her courage and conviction

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finally

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on the way her

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words were making were making thing

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after that visit

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president obama made so slit receive

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one hundred million dollars to replace

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all the pipes that were corroded it

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took years and years to make the fix this though

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and even then people found

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it hard to trust that the water was actually clean

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no one was willing to take responsibility

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for the disaster in the first place

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my

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kinda put a company that makes water

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filters together

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they worked hard to get the filters have donated

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to american food need

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murray has gotten older she

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found many other causes that see so

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passionate about what the climate

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places assists gender equality

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and as i believe

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given a new seventeen thousand

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and eight good school supplies

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he did have you they need to succeed in

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school he organizes

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to jazz to make sure everyone has

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a cheap around the holidays more

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he knows that making change is hard

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sometimes girl

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okay her

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or don't listen at all

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some people even call her names murray

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doesn't give a you

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know her words are powerful

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is she make sure she's heard

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they don't give you a seat at the table and

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on it would a megaphone

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promotion up wells little ,

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flint as a big voice voice

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dreams in dreams big rebel

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spirit

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the

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again law ,

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necessary it so inspiring

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to hear about young people learning

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half six mahalo for

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listening and say

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that's all