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Grant will allow Lexington author to share the extraordinary stories of ordinary people in Davidson County Everyone has a story worth telling and preserving, according to local author Tonya Lanier. And thanks to a $1,194 grant from ArtsGreensboro and The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Lanier will be able to tell the stories of 20 more African-American residents age 70 or older in a new book, Lost in the Shuffle .Too: More Stories That Need to be Told. Sitting in the living rooms and around the kitchen table of Davidson County residents, Lanier does a simple task so many people in our busy world don t have time to do anymore she listens. In those visits, she learns about people like Inez Pruitt, a Lexington woman who with no formal education who raised three of her own children and approximately 90 foster children. ....