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Tara, That is a wonderful story about your great-great-grandfater. What a gift to his community. Education, especially the ability to read, is surely among the most subversive activities one can undertake, especially when it involves teaching women. Certainly that is behind the efforts of contemporary autocratic governments to limit the education of women and girls.
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