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She enjoys sharing gods gospel through her fiction writing talent and has been an award winner and best seller of more than 100 books. They call this the city of promise, arturo, but it is a city of promises and very few of those promises are true. The founder and ceo of the nonprofit pencils of promise explains the secret of his success. Pencils of promise jungle scout million dollar case study.
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