“I am here to acknowledge & represent the African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper, whose stories don’t lead on the evening news,” says Naomi Wadler, an 11-year-old from Alexandria, Va

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“I didn’t know her. I didn’t know anyone that was here,” Nurse said. “But Gabby helped me get my bed into my room and that was big for us. I was like, ‘She would do this for me?’ We went to lunch the next day and we became best friends." 

"Right now, we just don’t want to not be in each other’s life. We know we won’t see each other every day anymore but we don’t lose that connection.”

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