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    MAKING IT COUNT

    Nov 01, 2020 3 minutes
    BY TÉA FREEDMAN-SUSSKIND

    “Téa, time to get up and go!” Mom’s voice penetrated my sleepy fog. I lay in bed, not wanting to leave its warmth, but then her words hit me. Two weeks earlier, my math teacher had asked me to join the Lakeside fifth-grade team for the Washington State Math Championships. Today was the day.

    While we drove for hours to Blaine, a tiny Washington town one mile from the Canadian border, I wondered what

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