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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbar.

This is the day.

Today, has a poor white teenage in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Abraham Davis never fit in.

As a hidden minority, the towns must, you're trying to make a home.

Then their lives collide.

And the latest from Houston, where the rain keeps falling and the flood waters keep rising.

It's Wednesday, August 3rd.

You say it in Arabic slowly, the Hadeeth.

And that means that you may hate something that happened to you, but it's good for you.

But you may love to have something, but you don't get it.

That's good for you.

You don't get it.

My colleague Sabrina Tabernisi has been reporting on a recent incident in Fort Smith, Arkansas,

a mostly white, predominantly Christian town, where abject poverty lives alongside

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