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Good morning and welcome to kid news. I'm Tori. Today is Thursday January 21st, 2021.

And we begin with the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history igniting the nation with a fiery

performance.

Yesterday, 22-year-old Amanda Gorman shared the stage with former presidents

and the likes of Lady Gaga and Jalo to read her original poem, The Hill We Climb.

Amanda was raised by a single mother who taught middle school,

and, like Joe Biden, has a speech impediment.

She called herself a weird child who often wrote in her journal on the

playground. It paid off. At 16 she was named the first youth poet laureate of

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