Fresh Air and Fireflies

My mother wanted to broaden her children’s horizons. So, when I was a kid, she got our family involved with a program called the Fresh Air Fund. Farm families sign up through the program to host kids from the city during the summer; our Fresh Air sister, Precious Broner, first came to visit in 2003.
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