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The Story Of The Barbed Fence
I believe the white families in this story were ignorant and lacking courage, which is why it ended so bitterly. They had a lovely house with a lovely, full family in a lovely neighborhood but the rumors of robberies became too much for them so they took action. The action being they barred up their windows so they couldn't see nature without steel in their way and they installed alarms they became accustomed to and they put up cement walls, ruining their fine tuned neighborhood. Last and most awful of all, the barbed fence caught their own boy and tore him apart. What was supposed to protect them was hurting them more than anything was before. If the families had courage to keep living life even when bad things happen the most precious things
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