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Lee County: A Narrative Analysis
When I think of my hometown I think people being shot, robbed, and raped. One of the biggest problems in our town was a man being given the death penalty for raping and mutilating a woman. When you cross the line between Albany and Leesburg, it is like stepping from a gang movie into Sweet Home Alabama. Albany is the murderous blood stricken world of gangs and thugs. Lee County is where I grew up and it just is not what it was when I started going to school there. I would never want my child to be raised in what Lee County has turned into in the past few years. When I was in third grade I went from a private school to Twin Oaks elementary school. When I was in elementary school I did not have to worry about children my age smoking weed
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