"There's kind of a sense of hopelessness, of being literally almost physically oppressed by your surroundings, " she said.

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In most other respects, her life was a replication of her mother's endless seasons and cycles of hopelessness and, by the time she was sixteen, pregnancy.

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Although they are now united in condemning the hopelessness (in both senses of the word) of Michael Howard's election campaign and although the more perceptive among them understand how little the party's plight has been changed by winning back a few seats, there is no agreement on what to do about it.

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