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14-Year-Old Raises $100,000 To Treat Girls To 'A Wrinkle In Time'

Taylor Richardson set up a GoFundMe to raise $15,000 to send 1,000 girls to see the Disney film. But, with the help of J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine and Oprah, she surpassed her goal.
Taylor Richardson, a 14-year-old aspiring astronaut, raised more than $100,000 to send girls to see the movie <em>A Wrinkle In Time</em>.

It started with a GoFundMe campaign. Three months ago, 14-year-old Taylor Richardson created a donation page to raise money to send girls to see the movie A Wrinkle in Time.

"It has a female protagonist in a science fiction film," the 14-year-old wrote in her description on GoFundMe. "A brown girl front and center who looks like me in the

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