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From the New York Times:
Dijon James, 17, and Jo Doodle, 17, showed up for their prom on Friday night looking as if they had just come from a skate park.
Both teenagers, who attend high school in Harlem, wore dressed-down skateboarder chic, in skinny jeans and sneakers. They munched on food from McDonald's and leaned against the tall marble columns in front of the New York Public Library's main branch, at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan.
Just inside, in the majestic, marbled Astor Hall, library workers were preparing for the annual anti-prom, an alternative prom hosted by the library for teenagers who do not - perhaps because of sexual orientation, style of dress, social cliques or other reasons - fit into the conventional prom routine, with its expenses and conventions of tuxedos and corsages and limousines and catering halls, and golden boy-and-girl couples.
"Some kids come because of their sexual orientation, or the way they dress," Mr. James said. "We're just coming to have a good time."
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