This Leona was not the Queen of Mean (Helmsley), but, by all accounts, the Queen of Joy, Compassion, Selflessness, Tolerance, Perseverance, Patience and Understanding.
After all, on Wednesday she wore a gold, bauble-studded crown, cocked impishly to one side on her gray-haired head, a lei, and sported a wide, winning smile. When 30 of Charmaine Lee’s kindergartners filed into the Browns Valley Elementary faculty lounge, it grew even wider.
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