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| | Success in the Long Run: For 40 years, center has met children's special needs |
 | | But in McKeesport, near her White Oak neighborhood, Bertha Mae Chaplin, a dynamic mother of two with a college degree, had transformed the basement of the First Presbyterian Church into a learning center for exceptional kids, and Resnik was among the first to be enrolled. |
 | | Today, she earns $7.05 an hour at a Pizza Hut, washing dishes and waiting on tables -- a job she has held for 13 years, her mother, Florence Resnik, said. |
 | | The basement schoolroom where she spent her early years has evolved into the $1.5 million Long Run Children's Learning Center on Long run Road, McKeesport, which celebrated its 40th anniversary Saturday with an open house. |
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