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There is HOPE.   

While 14 year old girls in other parts of the world are being shot in the head because they promote school education for other girls and women, here in the USA we have powerful people who speak their minds - it is very significant that here in the USA Ms. DeGeneres and Ms. De Rossi have the personal strength to be who they are...

It isn't easy.