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Talia
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I was fighting to get to my friends and classmates. I was struggling to stop these men that were trying to hurt them. And not just hurt them, they were going to kill them. They were going to murder these five girls and use them as a message for what? For me? For my parents? For our entire community of people? What was it that they wanted from us?
"LESLIE! ADA!" I screamed for them with tears streaming down my face. "SENNA! MELISSA! JACKIE!" I was frozen in place now, unable to get closer to them as I watched the five men lay them out in the very center of the park.
They laid the girls on the ground, making a star out of them. They even stretched their arms out so that they touched, making it appear as if they were doing some sort of synchronized swimming routine or something. It was awful watching this happen to them.