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We were becoming so used to the morbidity around us. So when the abduction of those girls happened, I was determined not to allow my society to move on.
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The speaker says that constant suffering had begun to feel ordinary to people around them. The abduction of the girls was a breaking point: instead of letting the event fade from public attention, the speaker was determined to keep society from treating it as just another tragedy and moving on.
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