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The Skirted Soldier

honda Smith, U.S. Air Force Veteran and CEO of The Skirted Soldier, did not grow up with much exposure to tea. “I remember my mother making a cup of Sleepytime tea from a box,” she recalls, but that was the extent of Rhonda’s tea knowledge for most of her childhood and young adulthood. Years later, upon arriving in Germany for a deployment, Rhonda began to feel sick. Her landlord at the time used fresh herbs and spices from her garden to make a home-brewed tea, which she served Rhonda while describing the array of herbs she grew and how each one

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