Dear reader,
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Barry Friedman
Jones said that as she began her accounting career, her father, Joe B. Tedder, told her: “This community is where you work. It’s where you will raise your children; it’s where they will go to school. It provides you a living, and you need to give back to it.”
Source: The Ledger
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