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                                                                             This world needs humanity now
       By Gena Lashley
                                                                             more than ever; take a good look at
                                                                             yourself in the mirror. If you feel as
          don’t even know where to begin   in our society. By standing by quietly   if ANYONE is “less than” you, due to   Delivery or Pick-Up
          today. We are in crisis, folks,   you might as well be marching with   race, educational background, socio-
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       can focus on is people kneeling    the national anthem are in NO WAY
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       falling apart at the seams, and there is   They are protesting violence against   REDUCE OUTSIDE NOISE!
       no one who will save us.           blacks in this country, end of story.
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       living in the twilight zone, one much
       more dangerous than I ever imagined.
          We are in a place where the earth
       doesn’t matter, but profit does. How
       do we live if we have no clean water                                                          Alzheimer’s
       to drink? I don’t want factories to be
       able to dump waste into my drinking
       water, do you? Women should have                                                      Specialty Center
       access to affordable birth control.
       Women have the right to choose
       whether they wish to have children
       or not; it’s not your decision to make
       for them. We need gun regulations
       NOW. We have created a culture
       where mass shootings no longer faze
       us. WE have done this to ourselves.
       No one is trying to take guns away; it
       just needs to be a little harder to buy
       a gun. Not everyone should have the
       privilege of owning one. It’s literally
       harder to buy Sudafed from Walmart
       than it is to buy a gun there. That is
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