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“One of my friends [at my vocational school] was a freshman who went to his exploratory for the shop he had been wanting to attend since before he came to the school. After he participated in an ice breaker in the shop, the kids found out he was from a certain town and stopped talking to him because they were all from other places. Immediately he felt like he didn’t belong. It made him not want to do the shop anymore and made him uncomfortable even though he had a passion for this trade of plumbing.” — Jaliyah

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