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honda Reynolds was paying bills in downtown
Pratt, Kan., on a hot and sunny mid-June afternoon when the second call came from her daughter’s Head Start teachers. ¶ Reynolds, 48 years
old with shoulder-length blonde hair and a reassuring smile, jumped into her Ford Taurus and
drove several miles home. It was 2:30 p.m. Just
one hour earlier, those teachers, April and Misty,
had told her they wanted to chat. Now they had
called back, asking to meet in person and soon.