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Growing Up in Phases

Growing Up in Phases

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Glenn Capers


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Growing Up in Phases

She knows no other life. Her's is good enough. She dreams of looking like a model in an Ad. School stops by the time she is eight, but even then she is learning a skill as a child. For a time shell learn the street from a woman in charge, then in her teens she'll strike out with other teens to reap the benefits of
pick pocketing and in groups of friends, attempt to victimize people at the cash machines outside, or at bus and train stations by causing the victim not to focus on personal property in a rush to get on a train or cross a street or plaza. It has all be documented on video, and there is nothing one can do about it. Organizations are trying to offer gypsies an alternative that will allow one to assimilate in to the society. The Gypsy refuses and rejects and continues in their own terms. The outcome is painful and yet the cycle continues by openly saying they do what they do for their children. It all sounds humanistic until you open your eyse and see deeper into the gypsy camp life and learn they have a better plan at your expense for their mansion back home with ten years.

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  • CarmenV 22/08/2013 23:49

    Beautiful image, true and sad words. Life is really strange sometimes!
  • s. sabine krause 20/07/2013 16:28

    call me naive, but as a child i read the semi-autobiographical children's book "katitzi" by swedish born romani author katarina taikon. it made a lasting impression on me, convincing me of the self-evident fact that there's no such thing as "THE gypsy" in general. sadly enough, that 70s book is long out of print, at least in my language. great book! no one-sided good and bad but good and bad on both sides… hard to assimilate into a society that still is and has always been full of prejudice against them! but then again, you got the inside "gypsy camp view", you must know better than me. let's hope against the odds that this little girl's "lasting finish" ; ) will send her off into a promising future rather than into a depressing one – at least for now her dream of becoming a super model is a most universal one! greetings, sabine.
  • Frau Ke 16/07/2013 3:17

    Here she looks like a child - a child like she is.
    I allways appreciate reading your explanations.
  • Prost Marlies 15/07/2013 21:06

    she looking very happy
    LG Marlies
  • Adele D. Oliver 15/07/2013 19:52

    a lovely young girl and so captivating her smile - proud ... and your capture excellent with accompanying text that is quite an eye opener !!
    greetings, Adele
  • Ken Piros 15/07/2013 12:22

    A fine portrait of this young lady.

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