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Ohio: When Next Door Is A World Away

Mal Fletcher
Posted 07 May 2013		 Full version    Print version    PDA version    

The story is told of a man who stood, day after day, by the doors of a bank of elevators in a New York skyscraper. Asked why he loitered there for hours on end, he replied simply: 'I wait for people to brush past me - I just need to be touched.'

The story may well be apocryphal but its central theme, urban isolation, will resonate with many Americans as they consider the dramatic tale of three young women released from virtual slavery yesterday.

People across the USA listened with horror on Monday evening to the... Click for more

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