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Only if we end this bad system will the future of Burma’s people, including my daughter’s, be bright.
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The speaker says that Burma’s people will have a hopeful future only when the “bad system” is brought to an end. By including the future of their own daughter, they make the political concern personal as well as collective. The sentence presents ending that system as necessary for brighter prospects, not merely as a desirable change.
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