Youth ang Gambling

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Youth and Gambling

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It’s 2 a.m. I’ve got an economics exam very early in the morning. I can stay on for just one more tournament. This time I can win. I can feel it. I need to make up for what I lost today. I absolutely have to. Maybe I could buy a new outfit for this weekend or put a little bit of money towards my credit card bill. I can feel it, this is the one. Come on, aces, aces.

The 19-year-old boy lowered the pistol to his shoulder and pointed it at the approaching police officer. It was a toy, made of plastic, but the officer didn’t know that. In the rainy night it looked real, like a chrome-plated .38-caliber revolver. Nor did the officer know the teenager wanted to die. So he started shooting.

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