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Rosario Dawson turns responsibility firsts I have family members who literally struggle with crack addiction, and I've seen how destructive that's been, not only for their relationships and their children and their career, but perpetually even until today because that meant that that person was not there all these years to raise their child and just the damage that it inflicts. Rosario Dawson struggle children years You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not. Rosario Dawson responsibility law long We're really delving into so many stories that are comic book based, so I like that we have a woman as part of that production. We haven't really explored that too much. 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