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But we were naive.

"It was so stately and so dramatic that we decided right then we had to go," says Meffre, "but we were naive; we had no idea of the scale of the project, of the vastness of downtown Detroit and its ruins.

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But we are naive and misguided if we believe that strangers at the playground luring kids with candy are the biggest threat to our children.

"We thought that with moral support from such a powerful friend as the United States ambassador, the authorities would be afraid to try to suppress our activities, but perhaps we were naive," said Mr. Gongadze's closest confidant and colleague, Alyona Y. Pritula, 33.

Perhaps Jonathan Jones was right to say that we were naive, but he's wrong if he thinks that "Sewell really scared [us]".

Perhaps we were naive, but we thought that we'd simply been asked to pick our 20 best books out of the 150-odd entries.

"We were naive about that.

"We were naive," Wiley recalled.

Heldt added: "We were naive".

"We were naive," he said.

We were naive.

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