For the past 30 years, Mary Swander has risen at 6 every morning in her one-room farmhouse in Kalona, Iowa â a town known for being one of the largest…
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Growing up in poverty in South Central and East Los Angeles, Luis J. Rodriguez says he found himself so emotionally empty that he joined a gang at age 11. He…
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