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        When a hurricane hits as hard as Harvey has hit the Houston area, many people are moved to act from afar. They donate money to charitable organizations, send supplies like diapers, or even offer their own homes as shelter from the floods.
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        Children’s book author Josh Funk contributed his own rendition of “Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast,” a hilarious picture book about two breakfast foods in a race to get to the last syrup in the refrigerator. Coerte Voorhees, a Houston author who wrote “Storm Wrangler” for his two-year-old after coping with Hurricane Ike in 2008, contributed by reading his book.
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