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Former foster child Mariah Horn, 20, prepares to testify before state lawmakers on a proposal to spend an additional $20 million on child custody case workers, on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio. Horn and seven brothers and sisters entered foster care eight years ago because of alcohol, cocaine and heroin use at home, and she credits her foster family for helping her survive. (AP Photo)
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In this 1952 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, refugees walk through Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon refugee camp, one of the first camps established as part of emergency measures to shelter Palestine refugees of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/S.Madver, UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this 1971 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, Palestinian refugees pose for picture in the New Amman refugee camp in Eastern Jordan. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/G.Nehmeh, UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this undated photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, a steam roller over the "streets" of Janzur refugee camp near Jenin in the West Bank, which was organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this 1948 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, Palestinian refugees stand outside their tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this 1967 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, Palestine refugees flee across over the Jordan river on the damaged Allenby Bridge during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this 1948 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, a convey of trucks and cars led by white U.N. jeeps travels through the Gaza desert carrying Arab refugees and their belongings from Gaza to Hebron, Transjordan. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this Monday, May 12, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugee, Aya Sattari,12, collects laundry at her family home in the Khan Younis Refugee Camp, in the southern Gaza Strip. As Palestinians mark the Nakba’s 66th anniversary Thursday, May 15, 2014 the Palestinian refugee crisis has transitioned from temporary to seemingly permanent. Tent camps of the 1950s have turned into urban slums with some alleys so narrow residents can only walk single file past drab multi-story buildings. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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In this Monday, May 12, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugee Hassan Sattari, 40, listens to his son Abdel-Hai, 9, while he helps him prepare for final exams at their home in Khan Younis Refugee Camp, the southern Gaza Strip. Hassan said he doesn’t believe Israel would ever agree to take back large numbers of refugees who, along with their descendants, now number more than 5 million across the Middle East. Instead, he’s banking on education for his children to help them escape. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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In this Monday, May 12, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugee Hassan Sattari, 40, sits with his children, from left to right, Aya, 12, Abdel-Hai, 9, Yaman, 2, and Mourad, 4, at their family home in the Khan Younis Refugee Camp, southern Gaza Strip. Hassan said he doesn’t believe Israel would ever agree to take back large numbers of refugees who, along with their descendants, now number more than 5 million across the Middle East. “Without confrontation, we can't go back," he told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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In this 1975 photo from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, archive, Fathiyeh Sattari, a worried Palestinian mother talks to a doctor about her underweight child, Hassan, who is being treated at a Rafah health center run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA. The photo is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/G.Nehmeh, UNRWA Photo Archives)
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In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugees Fathiyeh Sattari, 62, and her son Hassan, 40, look at their photograph that was taken at the Rafah U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, clinic in 1975, at their family home in Rafah Refugee Camp, the southern Gaza Strip. The UNWRA photo shows Sattari, her eyes wide with worry, as she presents her malnourished baby boy, Hassan, to a doctor. The picture is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
