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I think all children have potential for anything, to be anything, to be anybody. living in this neighborhood, it strips them of their innocence and their ability to be whatever they want to be, just living in an urban neighborhood.
- Crystal S
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Even though that’s empty you can smell the embalming fluids. It’s the worst smell in the world. It smells like mint from far away, but when you get closer if you know what “wet” smells like you know it’s wet. My kids are like two feet tall, and they’re right next to it, so they’re smelling that. That’s disgusting.
This is a picture of an empty "wet" bottle. Ashley found it under the slide of the play ground. "Wet" is marijuana soaked in embalming fluid.
- Ashley O
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My daughter weighed six pounds, nine ounces at birth. It was just an unbelievable day. Then when I saw the footprints, it just made me think, "Wow. This is really it." It just made me so happy.
- Tangela F
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When we spoke to Christina in October, her gas had been off for several months, which during the warmer months meant that they had no hot water and had to heat water on the stove to bathe the children. We don't know what her situation is like now that winter has come.
- Christina K
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We need peace. That’s why I love doing the peace sign. All my friends are like “that is so old, nobody does that anymore.” But I'm like, "we need peace!"
- Tangela F
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This is about survival of the fittest. I had to eat out of people's leftovers and I had to wash up in people's backyards in the winter time out of their little faucet, out in the cold. I’ve really struggled. And I’m tired. When do I get a break?
- Angela S
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That’s a foreclosure notice with the amount on it. After my mom died I thought she was paying taxes, but then I got a notice in the mail that says $3,000… almost $4,000 owed in back taxes. Now, the city has a nice way of saying even though you've been dwelling in this house for however long, we won’t help you.
- Crystal S
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This is a major issue in DC. The government says they are trying to pick up the trash in the District. But each day when I walked by the trash was still there on the ground. Even though people were living and working in the area it seemed abandoned because of all the trash on the ground. Even though the government claims to be helping the environment, I never saw a street cleaning car or trash collecting car pass through there.
- Judith R.
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These are the bars on our windows. It’s a mean of safety because if anybody busts the window you know they can’t get in. But sometimes we feel just caged in and it’s sad that we have to feel that way...I don’t like what’s outside my house.
Despite the bars on the windows, Tangela's apartment was broken in to this past summer, and many her things were stolen.
- Tangela F
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Dornsife School of Public Health 
Drexel University 
