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Please enjoy this amazing guest blog post on Disability.gov from one of Special Olympics Kansas’ and Project UNIFY’s leaders, Clint Armistead.

http://blog.govdelivery.com/usodep/2010/03/it-had-to-be-done-a-youth-perspective-on-the-rword-campaign.html

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