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Ten Dimes and One Very Stubborn House

The Box of Oddities by John Elliott and Kat Walls

Aug 31, 202627:14Comedy

What can ten dimes do? For Osceola McCarty, they represented a lifetime spent washing other people’s clothes—and a quiet act of generosity that would eventually change the lives of more than a hundred students. Discover...

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