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Myka Hanson, who runs the Edina-based teen advocacy group Teen Forward, rises early each morning and thinks about the generation of young folks she aims to help.

“I got my [doctorate] in psychology and then opened up Team Forward really to address the gap,” she told me. “There are kids who don’t need therapy, but they’re in therapy and there are kids who just have what we would have considered in our generation to be a fairly normal stress load, but because of social media and all of the things around them, that stress load is unbearable to them and that’s not their fault.”

When I read about a sea of young men who entered an Edina YMCA and allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old who now has a traumatic brain injury, I thought about Michael.

Because I remember when my neighborhood changed.

It was the late 1980s in Milwaukee.

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