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Where the Storm Hit Hardest: Meet Gap Year Squad 4

We are sending out squad after squad this fall, and every one of them gets a different opening chapter. Gap Year Squad 4 may have the most striking one of all. They are beginning their year in a place that is still digging out from a hurricane. Over ...

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