Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and Richie thought she would cry. Instead, she exploded. "Well, fuck you!" She whirled around to look at the others, and they flinched from her gaze, so hot it was nearly radioactive. "Fuck all of you if you think the same thing!" she turned back to Bill and began to talk fast, rapping him with words. "This is something more than some diddly shit kids game like tag, or guns, or hide and go seek, and you know it, Bill! We're supposed to do this, that's part of it! And you're not going to cut me out just because I'm a girl, do you understand? You better. Or I'm leaving right now!
If I had a girl, I__ want her to know that she can be anything she wants and that she doesn't have to rely on her looks or clothes or hair or make-up to define who she is or to get respect from other people. I__ want her to know she has a right to be respected or noticed because she was born. I__ not talking about all the girl power nonsense, I__ talking about my girl growing up knowing she has the right to be treated decently simply because she was born.
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If I had a girl, I__ want her to know that she can be anything she wants and that she doesn't have to rely on her looks or clothes or hair or make-up to define who she is or to get respect from other people. I__ want her to know she has a right to be respected or noticed because she was born. I__ not talking about all the girl power nonsense, I__ talking about my girl growing up knowing she has the right to be treated decently simply because she was born.
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