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My students at New Hope school in 1961 were a collection of mostly financially and socially deprived children. One family of 14 well-behaved but plainly dressed kids lived in a rambling unpainted plank board home. I had two in my room, an eighth grade girl, and a handsome seventh grade boy with a...