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• {Excerpt} Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be by:Valerie Graves

  

  INTRODUCTION MINING FOR GOLD IN MUDDY WATER . . . RETURNING THE PAGE The city of Pontiac, Michigan was celebrating its 150th birthday in March 2011, and my role in the festivities was “hometown girl made good.” Being honored as a lifetime achiever by Pontiac is no small thing—my hometown has produced two Olympic gold […]

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  October 25, 2016

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