http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/03/21/2010-03-21_violence_is_not_the_way_teen_vic_speaks_out_about_slash_attack.html
It's not like when you were a kid mom!
Your right baby it's not
How will I keep you safe from that fact.
How will I stay sane knowing that I can't?
Every time a teen looks in the mirror, she will see the V-shaped scar - a permanent reminder of the violence that erupted near her grandmother's Brooklyn home.
Shantayah Lewis, 17, sat in her room at Kings County Hospital Saturday, calmly reflecting on the Friday afternoon attack that left her with dozens of stitches in the left side of her face.
"My face is too beautiful to be fighting," Shantayah told the Daily News. "Fighting is not the key. Violence is not the way."
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