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Ajenai Hampton

Ajenai Hampton is a high school student in San Francisco. She lives in the Sunset District with her mother and her grandmother.

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December 10, 2017

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Many people in America believe that people's success in life is based on the individual, and that if you do not have any success in life, there is no …

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