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‘Best birthday present we could give her’: Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal reads to Hall elementary students on late wife’s birthday
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Former Governor Nathan Deal reads a book to Riverbend Elementary fourth-graders Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, on his late wife Sandra's birthday. Sandra Deal earned a reputation as a tireless advocate of children’s literacy, having read to more than 250,000 students at more than 1,000 schools in all 159 of Georgia’s counties. - photo by Scott Rogers
Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal spent Thursday morning reading to students at Riverbend Elementary and White Sulphur Elementary as a way of honoring his late wife’s love of literacy on what would have been her 82nd birthday.