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Michael Bennet: “It makes you feel like you want to be dead.”

On the recordOctober 28, 2015
It makes you feel like you want to be dead.
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

Editor's note · Context

A child's expression of the pain of hunger.

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