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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
Nikki Giovanni
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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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