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Now a poet, a boy in Jamaica could barely read until a teacher-in-training came along

Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.

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