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On the recordFebruary 25, 2009
I have told the story on the floor of the United States Senate, with the consent of the relatives, of a young woman named Avis Little Wind.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan shares a personal story about a young girl who died by suicide.

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