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Colorado Big Brothers, Big Sisters guides kids, combats “epidemic of loneliness”
When Towani Clarke met 12-year-old Antoniece, she’d been struggling with a way of living she describes as “blinkered,” moving through daily duties from her job at Nordstrom to the yoga classes she teaches to home.
Clarke came to Colorado four years ago from Zambia, where she founded an Afro-chic women’s clothes company. She missed the intergenerational contact common in Zambia. Her own children had grown.
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