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Others left school early.
Both groups need our help.
Estimates suggest the illiteracy rate runs as high as one in five adults. That is frightening.
Next week is National Literacy Week, a week set aside to spotlight a problem that affects most everyone nationwide.
Literacy volunteers are doing what they can to help those who need it. It is our turn to step forward and do what we can to help those volunteers.
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