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Barbara and Ann Lee, Anita LeBlanc, 1979

The House of Lee

The comfort of memory in Manchester

by Anita LeBlanc

posted 10/17/2008

When I was in second grade in the early 1960s, my parents had to sign a permission slip for me to learn about dinosaurs. My teacher at West Willow Elementary School in Ypsilanti, Ann Lee, taught evolution—a radical move in our community of conservative Baptist and Catholic factory and airport workers and stay-at-home moms. She also looked pretty artsy for our

 
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