A Heart for Service

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Ruth Davis-Leonard, 18, awoke at 6:30 Tuesday morning, checked her grandmother's blood sugar, gave her a shot of insulin, dropped medication in her eyes and fed her several vitamins and pills.

Davis-Leonard cooked pancakes and bacon -- "Bacon is her favorite," she explained -- walked her down the driveway to their minivan and snapped in her seat belt buckle, the same way she has countless times before, and drove her to the polling station.

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A Heart for Service

It's a routine the teenager became accustomed to during her junior and senior years of high school as she cared for her grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. At the time ...

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