With school I've been forced to become a weekend blogger. This was a funny e-mail that my mom sent me. Very funny. ;-) Hope you like.

Teen Poverty in America
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> >We just spent several hours observing teenagers
> hanging out at our local
> mall. We came to the conclusion that  many teenagers
> in America today are
> living in poverty. Most young men We observed didn't
> even own a belt; there
> was not one among the whole group.
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> >But that wasn't the sad part. Many were wearing
> their daddy's jeans. Some
> jeans were so big and baggy they hung low on their
> hips, exposing their
> underwear. I know some must have been ashamed their
> daddy was short, because
> his jeans hardly went below their knees. They
> weren't even their daddies'
> good jeans, for most had holes ripped in the knees
> and a dirty look to them.
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> >It grieved us, in a modern, affluent society like
> America, that there are
> those who can't afford a decent pair of jeans. I was
> thinking about asking
> my church to start a jeans drive for "poor kids at
> the mall." Then on
> Christmas Eve, we could go Christmas caroling and
> distribute jeans to these
> poor teenagers
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> >But here is the saddest part...it was the girls
> that were hanging out there
> that disturbed us most. Never, in all of our lives,
> have we seen such
> poverty-stricken girls. These girls had the opposite
> problem of the guys.
> They all had to wear their little sister's clothes.
> Their jeans were about 5
> sizes too small! I don't know how they could get
> them on, let alone button
> them up. Their jeans barely went over their
> hipbones. Most also had on their
> little sister's top; it hardly covered their
> midsections. Oh, they were
> trying to hold their heads up with pride, but it was
> a sad sight to see
> these almost grown women wearing children's clothes.
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> >However, it was their underwear that bothered us
> most. They, like the boys,
> because of the improper fitting of their clothes, 
> had their underwear
> exposed. We had never seen anything like it. It
> looked like their underwear
> was only held together by a single piece of string.
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> >We know it saddens your heart to receive this
> report on condition of our
> American teenagers. While we go to bed every night
> with a closets full of
> clothes nearby, there are millions of "mall girls"
> who barely have enough
> material to keep it together. We think their
> "poorness" is why these 2
> groups gather at the mall; boys with their short
> daddies' ripped jeans, and
> girls wearing their younger sisters' clothes. The
> mall is one place where
> they can find acceptance. So, next time you are at
> the mall, doing your
> shopping , and you pass by some of these poor
> teenagers, would you say a
> prayer for them?
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> >And one more thing .
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> >Will you pray the guys' pants won't fall down,
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> >and the girls' strings won't break?
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> >We thank you all,
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> >Two Concerned Grandparents
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