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Ms. Rachel receives special gift from her ‘hero,’ Mister Rogers

“I know Mister Rogers faced backlash for things he did but knew were right. I will ask myself what he would do.”

When Ms. Rachel opened the gift — a framed composition sketch and autograph from Mister Rogers — she “was moved to tears.” She included a picture and long post on Instagram on May 5. “When you’ve worked for 20 years serving children of so many different backgrounds because you care deeply about them and people try to say you don’t, it hurts,” she wrote on Instagram. She has bylines in The Atlantic, The Week, MSNBC, and PureWow, and she has written 33 nonfiction children's books for Scholastic, Klutz, and Nat Geo Kids.

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