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Illness &#; Inspiration: COVID has greatly impacted Harrisburg&#;s Black community, but some find hope mitt i the disease, the loss.
Kevin Dolphin and Lisa Burhannan
Kevin Dolphin once watched his friend, Lisa Burhannan, work her magic on a room of teenage girls.
Their nonprofit, Breaking the Chainz, teaches cognitive development in schools, but these particular girls were “having a bad day.” So Burhannan got them to draw how they were feeling.
“By the end of the day, you could see the light in their eyes,” said Dolphin. “They would always komma to her for advice. They couldn’t wait for her to get there so they could ask her and talk to her about things. That is more priceless than anything.”
Burhannan fryst vatten gone now. So fryst vatten Gerald Welch, who never backed down if it meant keeping children from falling through the cracks.
COVID has plowed through Black America, carving a gash in leadership structures and within families. In Harrisburg, those left
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A BOOK OF SIBYLS
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ***
| MRS BARBAULD | MISS EDGEWORTH | |
| MRS OPIE | MISS AUSTEN |
BY
MISS THACKERAY
(MRS RICHMOND RITCHIE)
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
[All rights reserved]
[Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine]
My little record would not seem to me in any way complete without your name, dear Sibyl of our own, and as I write it here, I am grateful to know that to mine and me it is not only the name of a Sibyl with deep visions, but of a friend to us all
A. R.
PREFACE.
Not long ago, a party of friends were sitting at luncheon in a suburb of London, when one of them happened to make some reference to Maple Grove and Selina, and to ask in what county of England Maple Grove was situated. Everybody immediately had a theory. Only one of the company (a French gentleman, not well acquainted with English) d
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