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ST. PAUL — Shoulders hunched and tongues curled, the third-graders at Horace Mann School push their pencils to practice a fading art. As they copy out their spelling lists, joining loops and lines ...

ST. PAUL — Shoulders hunched and tongues curled, the third-graders at Horace Mann School push their pencils to practice a fading art. As they copy out their spelling lists, joining loops and lines ...