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legislature, the governor of Georgia, and President of the United States, but he
remained true to his roots as a peanut farmer and Sunday School teacher. The
quiet humility of his post-presidential service, which included working to build
houses for people who wouldn’t have them
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How to garden in January. Today I’ll be doing the things on the list that
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