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Kyle – friends for life
Columns, Opinions
Staff Report on June 23, 2021
Kyle – friends for life

By David Abdel

By the time you dear friends read this, I’ll have moved. So consider these parting words as my farewell to the wonderful town of Kyle.

I moved to Kyle shortly after I started teaching at Lehman High several years ago. While there was love of living in Austin, I felt there was a strong need to live where I taught. I wanted to have a stake in the community, a shared productive desire with those in my class and the families connected to them. If I was going to relate to their exp...

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