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In the developing world, one girl in seven is married by the age of 15; nearly half become mothers by the age of 18.Girls attending secondary school, by contrast, are much less likely to marry and bear children before reaching adulthood.

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For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.

It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.

That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.

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