The Power of a Dinner Table

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Reasons teenagers attend Thursday dinner

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Escape problems of poverty

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Charismatic flowers from hostile soil

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Teenagers are wonderful despite harsh backgrounds

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Hungering for an antidote

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to political ugliness

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No margin for error for these kids

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High stakes if they don't get everything right

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Author's purpose in paragraph 14

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Highlight abilities and talents of teenagers

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Purpose of quoting Bill Milliken

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Expert opinion

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Author's Purpose

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Raise awareness on poverty's effects and kindness as change.

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Figurative language in: "turn toward one another’s love like plants toward the sun"

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Simile

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Anomalous meaning

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Untypical