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When Kirk Perry looks back at his life, he notes turning points provided by people showing radical generosity. Growing up very poor in the mid-West (his parents worked in a Ford assembly plant and lost their jobs during the 1970s recession), he wanted to play on a baseball team. He only had a plastic K-Mart […]

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