She said she'd gone on a chat site for teens, started writing to a boy she'd never met and gave him her cellphone number.

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Then she went home happy, positive and outgoing, just as she'd gone to school, her mother told the counselor.

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She'd gone through three separate rounds of interviews with the food company and things were looking positive -- for a little while.

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