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" So complex are all the ingredients that cause gang membership that it seems virtually impossible to isolate one solution that can address them all and thereby manufacture a hope for the future upon which these kids can rely. "

Greg Boyle

Gang

Hope

Future

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Greg Boyle

Success

Opposed

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Compassion

God

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