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Literacy program helps parents learn to read English.
Byline: C. Ron Allen
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Laura Calderon recalls watching her husband, Armando, read to their daughter while she was still in the womb.
She wanted to help enrich their baby, too, but couldn't. After the baby, Diana, was born and time passed, the girl wanted her mother to read to her.
Calderon froze. Like 80,000 Palm Beach County residents, she could not read.
"It was very, very frustrating," Calderon said recently, five years after that deciding moment. "Living in a country of another language is a frustrating thing for anybody."
She vowed to change that.
Calderon, then a vegetable picker in the sunbaked fields of Pahokee, heard about a …
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