... should want to watch your local news is if you want to hear something tragic. When was the last time you seen a report with video footage of children happily playing basketball in an urban community park or a game of kickball in a field and the story end there? When was the last time you heard the same story end with "when a seven ... the poverty, drugs and violence they each were unaware of how to get away from the environment when that's all they knew. In this movie one of them is in a wheelchair due to a gunshot wound before he is twenty years old, another has been in and out of jail...

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