Wrapping it Up with The Reading Connection

Posted by Jane Hess Collins on December 05, 2011

In December of 2005 I volunteered to gift-wrap for the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia and discovered that teenagers rule the world. Two pretty teens worked with me, and when they smiled, complete strangers stuffed the donation box with cash.

Fast forward to six years later and I’m sitting in Barston’s Child’s Play in Arlington with Donna Hamaker, wrapping presents for donations to The Reading Connection.

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