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‘Heart to Art' Uses Theater to Help Students Get Through Pain
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‘Heart to Art' Uses Theater to Help Students Get Through Pain

The “Heart to Art” summer program at the Auditorium Theatre aims to help kids who have lost parents to find peace through the arts. NBC 5’s Anayeli Ruiz reports. 

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