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After her turbulent days on 'The View,' Raven-Symone has come 'Home' to Disney

LOS ANGELES - Raven-Symone is focused, unsmiling as she stands behind the door of a high school gymnasium.

She breaks her gaze only to mouth lines of dialogue or burst into song, rehearsing snippets from the musical episode she's filming as the crew chatters on the other side of the door.

Symone, a TV veteran at just age 32, hardly needs the practice, but she's game - bringing the same energy take after take, each time injecting her familiar vivacious attitude into her movements. This is the set of "Raven's Home," now in its second season as a spinoff of "That's So Raven," the landmark Disney Channel series that skyrocketed her to fame in 2003.

She is still playing Raven Baxter, but the psychic teen in "That's So Raven," whose misleading visions caused hilarious trouble, is now a divorced mother of twins, one of whom has inherited her psychic abilities. The twins may be the lead characters - played by Navia Ziraili Robinson and Issac Ryan Brown - but

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