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The fluorescent lights overhead shone extremely bright and hot, causing a sheen of sweat to form on my forehead and upper lip. As I stood in the shaving cream aisle of Pathmark, I could clearly hear Lisa Dini’s voice. “Are you chicken?” I wasn’t chicken. I just knew right from wrong. And this was definitely wrong. Stealing was wrong. It’s in the 10 commandments we learn about in religious school. But I’ve always had this need to fit in and be accepted. This felt like an initiation I had to pass in order to be one of the gang. A gang I d...
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