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Dear Friends of Hanna Perkins,

You may know that I have a daughter—an only child who never had childcare outside of our immediate family, who had medical trauma from infancy onward and whose pre-K was cut short by the pandemic. She didn’t have a full year of “normal” school until second grade, and now in third grade, she recently experienced the tragic loss of her classroom teacher.

She’s had physical pain, isolation, loneliness and grief…among other things. She missed much of the ...