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This article is contributed by Geneva Reid, Cape Fear Literacy Council Board of Directors Kenny Denison was a successful Wilmington-area businessman, well-loved husband, and father, loved and respected in the community and ashamed because, in his own words, “I can’t read.” That is the man I met in 2011 at the Literacy Council, where I was volunteering as a tutor.   Having been officially diagnosed as dyslexic, Kenny was basically ignored by his teachers in his classroom at Reidsville Middle School. This was in the 60s before many programs to help people with learning disabilities were established. When asked by the judge who saw him frequently for truancy why he wouldn’t go to school, Kenny replied honestly, “Because I can’t read and nobody will teach me.” Finally, the judge told him he would allow him to drop out of school but warned him that his life would be difficult, that he would have to work very hard to support himself. He

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