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As jy al ooit melaatsheid bestudeer het, kan jy jou indink in die vuil toestande waarin hulle geleef het. Wat ons elke dag in New York Stad sien, is erg genoeg. Op 41ste Straat, naby die ingang van die Lincoln Tonnel, staan saamgeflanste krotte langs die strate, vir ‘n stadsblok ver.
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If you've ever studied leprosy, you can imagine the sordid conditions they existed in. What we see every day in New York City is bad enough. On 41st Street, near the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, makeshift hovels line the street, stretching a city block. They are cardboard shacks — refrigerator boxes covered with rags. You see filthy, soiled mattresses; rotting, torn clothes; worthless junk piled high on top of these pitiful "homes." It's a little town filled with lice, roaches, rats, drugs, alcohol, AIDS, rampant disease and constant fighting.
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