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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Making The Moment Matter

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In the wake of the devastating wildfires that ravaged Southern California earlier this year, students from Palisades Charter High School – which was rendered unusable by the destruction – now are taking classes a few miles away, in Santa Monica.  In a building that used to be a Sears store, which is adjacent to a mall and shopping district that have seen better days.  This confluence gave me an idea.

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