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Kammie (18, Lousiana) loves dressing up in fuzzy costumes and going to huge anime conventions. Her parents just finished rebuilding their house, after it was destroyed by Katrina.
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Ben (18, North Dakota) took us to a private hunting reserve, where you pick out-and pay for- the animal you're going to kill, in advance. He was devastated when he shot a 750 pound male instead of the 200-pound female he had selected.
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Boris (19, Florida) got his first tattoo when he was 16, this photo is of his 35th. he says he's run out of skin when he's 26.
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(Carey (17) & Eddie (15), West Virginia) Cary was introduced to meth at age 13, when his stepmom handed him a glass pipe. He got high every day for three years and joined a gang. He's been clean for a year but still has problems with the law.
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Christina (17, Florida) says people look at her and assume she's a 'ditsy blond.' When they get to know her, they discover that she is a 'good Christian', a vegetarian, and an environmental activist. She models in Miami to earn extra cash.
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Reskew (18, New York) is one on New York City's most wanted graffiti artists. He wouldn't let us show his face or use his real name. His tag appears in over 200 illegal locations around the city. He says he does it for the adrenaline.
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Rayne (Alaska) hates it when ignorant people ask him if he lives in an igloo. He works at the Alaskan Cultural Center.
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David (17, Maryland) plays 60 hours of role-play video games a week, an he tries not to talk to anyone at school. Kids at school make fun of his hair, but he ignores them and keeps walking.
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Alissa (16, Tennessee) used to be into punk rock and hang out with kids who did drugs. Now she's in her Church and tends livestock with Future Farmers of America.
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Adrian (15, Indiana) lives to skate. He's only been at it for a year, but he's already one fo the best skaters in the park. His mom passed away two days before our shoot, and Adrian copes by skateboarding nonstop.
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Jon (19, California) is a skinhead who proudly calls himslef a racist. He says the white race is disappearing, and he's pissed off about racial mixing. He lives in a trailer with a Nazi flag on teh wall and a shotgun under his bed.
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Bethany (16, New Hampshire) spends all her free time at Tentopia, a teen homeless encampment in the woods, which she calls her sanctuary. She used to get straight A's but now hears voices in her head and struggles to get any passing grades.
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Jake(19, Arizona) has 15,00 friends on MySpace and get followed through the mall by girls who recognise him as an online celebrity.
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Bentzy (19, New York) is studyin to be a Rabbi. He says God did not put us here to play basketball and eat pizza. He studies the Torah all day, every day, and has never heard of MySpace.
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April (18, Nevada) is the youngest sex worker at the world famous Bunny Ranch, which she saw on the HBO series Cathouse. Every day, two or three men each pay $5,000 for an hour alone with her.
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Calvin (17, Iowa) is in charge of the swine house on his family's farm. He studies soil judging and agriculture business at scholl and never watches MTV.
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Anastasia (15, Vermont) says no one n Vermont is black. Her dad is an African American from Harlem, but she says she's 'one eighth black.; Her mom, boyfriend and all 326 of her friends on MySpace are white, and she says race isn't an issue in her life.
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Eric (18, Louisianna) lives on a small island on the Bayou, and there's nowhere he'd rather be than on his shrimp boat. He often spends all nigh catching shrimp, which his mom sells in the driveway while he's at school.
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Nate (17, New Jersey) is the star high school basketball player in his town, and he was just offered two full-ride scholarships to good colleges. He plans to fulfill his dream of making it in the NBA.
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TJ (18, TX) lives to ride bulls. He's always got a mouthful of Copenhagen, and he's proud to say that he's got the body of a 78-year-old man from the bullriding.
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