Ambrose inquires about a drill, and before long we find ourselves at the local machine shop with half the village crowding around to watch the blond girl redrill her heelpiece.

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And I see the power of music when I'm on stage in China: I start a Chinese song and the audience roars with delight that the blond, curly-haired girl with the banjo can sing their music.

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"Maybe the idea of a cute little blond girl singing violent songs is something they're not cool with, " Pearl says.

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The 8-year-old girl from Barcelona, Spain, with dark blond hair was placed in the Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center, the nation's oldest bilingual school.

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Rafters and torn brick walls serving as his backdrop, a brown-haired man in a T-shirt and shorts clutches onto a blond girl in brightly colored New Balance sneakers, carrying her away from the school as she peers over his shoulder.

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