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Get your pen and paper and remember sweet Dorie Cooper

ESSENTIAL NEWS. April 3, 2025

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Draw a Bird Day is fast approaching, which sounds like one of those silly made-up holidays, but it isn’t.

It’s actually both an uplifting and tragic story.

Join me in the Wayback Machine as we travel backward in time to the year 1943, amid World War II, and a hospital ward in England where 7-year-old Dorie Cooper is visiting her uncle who has lost his leg…

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