Help my macbook has an annoying line!

Hey, i have a late 07 macbook with 2 gb of ram, 2ghz dual core and a 128 gb ssd. I've recently have devloped this horizontal line accrosed the screen this line is white. Im a very capable computer tech but i wanted to talk to sombody more experinced in macs, ive been a pc guy. Not afraid to pop it open. SO PLEASE HELP ME!!! (Yes i know all caps is conciderd yelling, not at you but at this issue. :-)

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