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Jenna Bush is the star at literacy fundraiser

A constellation of best-selling authors joined Barbara and George H.W. Bush at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center earlier this week for A Celebration of Reading Dallas. But the crowd at the literacy fundraiser wanted Jenna. Jenna Bush was there to read from her new book, Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope. She read a moving chapter about an HIV-positive teen mother she met while working for UNICEF in Latin America. As many guests wiped away tears, former President Bush said, “I used to worry about following Barbara; now I have to worry about following the grandkids.” Read the article in The Dallas Morning News.

Posted by Louise Ash on 14 November 2007 in Feature

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