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• 1 Finding Gilbert
  While stationed in France during World War II, an American soldier took a seven-year-old orphan under his wing. Decades later, his daughter made it her mission to locate that boy.
• 2 To Catch an Identity Thief
  "I hunted down the woman who stole my life."
• 3 How Boys and Girls Learn Differently
  David Chadwell, the country’s first—and only—state coordinator of single gender education, walks us through the gender differences.

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