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Gold in the Sunrise

Corrie's Mom
The sun rises over the mountain and Corrie’s Butterfly Garden.
A picture I took while wearing a necklace with Corrie’s image in her Butterfly Garden.
Corrie and I at my first college campus in 2019.
I took Corrie and her brother to a park when we moved in summer 2019.
Corrie treated many walls like balance beams.
My grandmother and Corrie walk on the campus where I earned my graduate degree.
Purple tulips awaken in Corrie’s Arendelle Garden.
I see Corrie grow up through the bloom of her plants.
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They say teacher turn over is high right now, and many teachers will leave the profession in five years or less. I will enter my seventh year as a full-time teacher, and my 12th year in education after I'd started as a sub and teacher assistant. I was the student in the 1990s you did not want in your classroom because I was diagnosed with ADHD and did not know how to socialize with other kids. I was due to be tested for autism, but this was considered an ostracizing experience for a child then, especially a girl. I am a third generation teacher and author of seventeen creative works.

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