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Brent Sharer, 12, Austin North, 13, Aaron Smith, 13, Gage Washington, 14, and BJ Losey, 13, hang out on the bridge by the train tracks in Glouster, OH on Thursday, May 29, 2008.

A teenage boy ups the ante of his playful fighting with a friend when he rears back with a wrench in Glouster, OH on Saturday, May 17, 2008. Displays of masculinity in rural Ohio are common and occasionally escalate into real violence.

Clayton Ator (L) and Tylor Woodrum, 16, do diamond push-ups in Ator's girlfriend's house in Carbondale, OH. Communities that once struggled to get by can no longer make ends meet after the economic downturn in the United States.

Tylor Woodrum puts his dukes up while playfully boxing with his step-mom's boyfriend (not pictures in Carbondale, OH.

Tylor Woodrum, 16, holds a box containing his father's ashes. Dave Woodrum was killed in August of 2006 in a high-impact 4-wheeler accident. Dave's family had his body cremated and his favorite cock-fighting rooster mounted on top of the box.

Richie Goins shows off his pet snake while his girlfriend Tracie folds clothes next to Richie's brother, Timmy, who has cerebral palsy and requires around the clock care.

Troy Goins, 16, sucks his toe to console himself as he sits on his new bed in his mother’s trailer. His autism makes it difficult for him to deal with even the smallest changes and self-stimulation is his way of coping.

The Maffin children play with the family's iguana in Glouster, OH. In many impoverished homes in Southeastern Ohio money is spent on non-essentials such as televisions and exotic pets. Communities that once struggled to get by can no longer make ends…

Clayton Ator riles up Shank and Money after getting stoned. Ator, an ex-con learned to 'shoot ink' in prison and does prison style tattoos out of his living room in Carbondale, OH.

Viewed through a collection of medicine bottles lining the Sellers' window, Hercules crouches to watch the children playing in the snow. The Sellers family struggles with an assortment of health problems. Most of their children have asthma and twins…