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Experts: Pregnant teens are often in denial

When a teen gets pregnant, her first reaction is likely to be, "How could this happen to me?"

While this might seem surprising, youth counselors on Long Island say they hear the same shocked expressions again and again - and for reasons that are perfectly understandable.

Teenage girls, they say, often cannot admit to themselves that they might engage in premarital sex and might need...

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