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Local teens prepare for World Youth Day in Australia

The farthest high school senior Joe Moncada has ever traveled from his home in Elmont is Indiana, when he went to an event at the University of Notre Dame.

But tomorrow morning he will board a plane and head for Australia. Moncada is among 268 young people from Long Island and thousands around the world flocking to World Youth Day to attend Mass with Pope Benedict XVI, and other events.

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