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A Destructive Storm Gives Birth to a Charity Leader

My parents came from Alabama, but I was born in Biloxi. My mother was an only child and my father was one of 13, and together they had the six of us. When I was growing up in Biloxi there were a lot of mom-and-pop businesses on Main Street: My parents owned the Kitty-Kat Restaurant, and all of us kids worked there...

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