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Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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I work with an adult ESL program at a men's prison in Illinois. We also use "The Circuit" by Francisco Jimenez. You might be interested in My name is Jorge: On both sides of the river by Jane Medina. It is a book of bilingual poems.

In addition to The Circuit, the men have chosen several others novels/memoirs. We get copies in English and Spanish.

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Chapters like "Name" might be interesting supplements for discussion. We
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Burro Genius by Victor Villaseñor

Amber Dunse
University of Illinois
Education Justice Project's Language Partners

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Amber Dunse
Lecturer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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These are amazing stories, Amber. Thank you for sharing and for the work that you do!

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Amber Dunse
Subject: Stories used in teaching

I work with an adult ESL program at a men's prison in Illinois. We also use "The Circuit" by Francisco Jimenez. You might be interested in My name is Jorge: On both sides of the river by Jane Medina. It is a book of bilingual poems.

In addition to The Circuit, the men have chosen several others novels/memoirs. We get copies in English and Spanish.

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Chapters like "Name" might be interesting supplements for discussion. We
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Burro Genius by Victor Villaseñor

Amber Dunse
University of Illinois
Education Justice Project's Language Partners

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Amber Dunse
Lecturer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Dear colleagues!

This is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing these! I teach secondary school students. And last year I used Eveline by James Joyce. It's a short story and they loved it. In this classroom, I mainly have girls so there was a quiet debate about what Eveline could have done, or what choice did she have? Very interesting. At this point there we had distance learning so we discussed it via videoconference.
I will look into some more of my examples and will try to share them as well.
Bye all
Marijana

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Marijana Smolcec
Croatia
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Amber Dunse
Subject: Stories used in teaching

I work with an adult ESL program at a men's prison in Illinois. We also use "The Circuit" by Francisco Jimenez. You might be interested in My name is Jorge: On both sides of the river by Jane Medina. It is a book of bilingual poems.

In addition to The Circuit, the men have chosen several others novels/memoirs. We get copies in English and Spanish.

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Chapters like "Name" might be interesting supplements for discussion. We
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Burro Genius by Victor Villaseñor

Amber Dunse
University of Illinois
Education Justice Project's Language Partners

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Amber Dunse
Lecturer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Dear Shuzhan,

I don't have anything to contribute to this topic. But I want to thank you for sharing these resources, that represent a rich array of issues relating to supporting multilingual learners, as well as how you use these resources in your classroom. Storytelling, as an academic discourse genre, is a natural multi-voiced platform to build critical conversations in teacher education through perspectives shifting, and a user friendly way to help future teachers explore how their personal and precessional identities might impact on their teaching.

Again, thank you!

Sincerely,

Ching-Ching


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Ching-Ching Lin, Ed.D
NYS TESOL President, 2021-2022
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Ching-Ching! I feel that if we write a paper together, I can write the narratives and you can do the analysis. :P

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-02-2022 01:45 PM
From: Ching-Ching Lin
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear Shuzhan,

I don't have anything to contribute to this topic. But I want to thank you for sharing these resources, that represent a rich array of issues relating to supporting multilingual learners, as well as how you use these resources in your classroom. Storytelling, as an academic discourse genre, is a natural multi-voiced platform to build critical conversations in teacher education through perspectives shifting, and a user friendly way to help future teachers explore how their personal and precessional identities might impact on their teaching.

Again, thank you!

Sincerely,

Ching-Ching


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Ching-Ching Lin, Ed.D
NYS TESOL President, 2021-2022

Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 2/8/2022 10:40:00 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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On 2022/02/08 at 03:40pm, Shuzhan Li via TESOL International Association wrote:

> Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

"Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers" by Marina Budhos.

I would not say this is my favorite resource, but it is certainly in the
top 10 or so. I used it for several years in USA public high school ESOL
classes. It is also a great resource to help non-ESOL teachers understand a
bit more about the huge variety of immigrant experiences.

The author's site:

https://marinabudhos.com/remix-conversations-with-immigrant-teenagers

At Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/remix/9781556356100

--
Chris Spackman (he / him)

ESOL Coordinator, The Graham Family of Schools
ESL Educator, Columbus State Community College

Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (Wajima, Ishikawa 1995-1998)
Linux user since 1998
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Original Message:
Sent: 2/8/2022 10:40:00 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Thank you Shuzan for sharing these. I am actually gonna create a new reading list for me starting with these. I have used stories by Augusto Monterroso here in Honduras with my students. The stories bring some comic relief to the class but they also ignite conversations on identity, values and definitely promote critical thinking.

I look forward to seeing more titles added as the conversation grows.

Warm regards,
Suzanne

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Suzanne Rajkumar Action Tesol Caribbean
Asst. Local Coordinator
Corporate Bilingual Consultancy
Honduras
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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I am so happy to meet others who use text-based strategies.
But my absolute favorite picture books for high school and college beginners are the following,
two of the books are allegories,
all of them work with dramatization and with having students write A-Book-After-A-Book: (Some can be found being read on Youtube)
Perfect Square by Michael Hall (2011) published by HarperCollins. Allegorical.
My People by Langston Hughes (2009) photographically illustrated by Charles E.Smith Jr. published by Simon & Schuster
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane Evans published by Square Fish (2015)
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (2004) published by HRP.  Allegorical.

I published a book on 'Teaching Beginner ELLs with Picture Books: Tellability' in 2012. Although the audience was elementary school teachers in the U.S. you may find the free 1st chapter online interesting   https://us.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/49826_Lado_Ch1.pdf  



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Ana Lado
Dr.
Marymount University
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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What terrific discussion. Thank you all for sharing the resources you use in your classrooms! :)

(The only of these texts I've used in class is "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan, but I now look forward to incorporating some of these others.)

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Christine Nicodemus

Department Chair- Humanities, Social Sciences, & Fine Arts, Wayne Community College (USA)
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Dear TESOL friends, to follow up on this thread of conversations around teaching using stories, I'm sharing a short article that I wrote for TESOL Journal. In the article, I described in more detail how I use some of the aforementioned stories to foster a strengths-based approach to teaching multilingual learners. Hope it's helpful to you in your work!

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Shuzhan Li, PhD
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY, USA
TESOL Membership Professional Council
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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Shuzan,

Thank you for sharing these resources. They have come just at a time when we are exploring the applications of translangauaing more deeply in a community of professional development of adult ESOL educators.  Here is an article by TESOL Connections titled "Translanguaging in Bilingual and ESL Classrooms" that may be helpful.

All the best,
Ramin

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Ramin Yazdanpanah, PhD
Past ICIS Chair
TESOL
USA
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-12-2022 03:54 PM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL friends, to follow up on this thread of conversations around teaching using stories, I'm sharing a short article that I wrote for TESOL Journal. In the article, I described in more detail how I use some of the aforementioned stories to foster a strengths-based approach to teaching multilingual learners. Hope it's helpful to you in your work!

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Shuzhan Li, PhD
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY, USA
TESOL Membership Professional Council

Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2022 10:40 AM
From: Shuzhan Li
Subject: Stories used in teaching

Dear TESOL colleagues, in my teaching with college-age students who are future teachers, I love using stories in addition to textbooks with learning theories and teaching strategies. Some stories I love to use include the following ones.

1. Masks and Acculturation by Margret Montoya. We use this story to talk about various forms of community cultural wealth in the story.
2. A short story from The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez We use this story to talk about migrant worker children.
3. We use "The Icing on the Cake" from StoryCorps to talk about immigrant families and their strengths.
4. We use Facundo the Great to talk about anglicizing students' names in schools.
5. We use Mother Tongue by Amy Tan to talk about multilingual repertoire and strategic translanguaging.

Do you love stories in teaching? What's your favorite story to use in teaching? Would you like to share some stories you use in this forum?

Looking forward to your posts,
Shuzhan

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Shuzhan Li
Ithaca College
United States
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