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When Carol Brannaman was in 10th grade, she became part of her first crusade.
The girls’ basketball program had been eliminated from Mount Vernon High School years earlier for reasons that no longer seemed clear.
Brannaman’s dad, a farmer, carted Carol around from house to house to collect signatures from parents in hopes that his daughter could play basketball. By the time she was a senior, basketball was back for the girls, and Carol was on
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