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Best-selling author Jason Reynolds: “No one ever told us we could grow up to be writers”

Author Jason Reynolds didn't have role models that were artists when he was young. That's why he tries to be an example for kids today. The two-time National Book Award Finalist and YA author told Salon that "there was no one in our lives that told u...

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