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Thursday, July 6, 2006 12:00 AM

The lost boys of Colorado City

Over the past five years, a fundamentalist Mormon "prophet" has banished as many as 400 boys from his Arizona town. Now the teens, once forbidden to even watch a movie, are adrift in a world of drugs, girls and depression.

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  • Thursday, July 6, 2006 03:19 PM

    I believe in Karma

    Or at least I used to.. I also like the word "humanity", it's supposed to get you all excited about humans and the human condition. At least somebody put forth the effort to help some of these kids and bring them some productive and positive structure. That wanna-be theocrat pedophile should be stuck on a pig pole, but would I then be sacrificing my humanity?

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