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| | How Ya Like Me Now! |
 | | First, Morris draws a clear and definitive connection between the emotional struggles and destructive behaviors of her childhood and adolescence, and the dangers and pressures blocking the ambitions and driving the poor choices of too many fl children today, who too often see poverty, hopelessness, substance abuse, premature parenthood and violence as inevitable. |
 | | Like Harriet Tubman—who, not satisfied with securing freedom for herself, dedicated her life to leading others to the promised land—Morris is a modern-day Moses, working to help embattled fl girls to negotiate the deadly snares that she herself escaped as a frustrated, angry and combative “project chick.” |
 | | Second, and most meaningful to me as a Long Branch native, Morris provides a historical backdrop of how fl people came to Long Branch, carried as much by dreams and aspirations as by buses and trains from the South. |
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