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	Ella Ignacio, a 10th grade special needs student, spent more than two years drawing 25 pictures for the book&nbsp;&quot;Do Skunks Think Skunks Stink?&quot;&nbsp;Proceeds from sales of the self-published book&nbsp;will go&nbsp;to the nonprofit facility for medically frail children where the book&#39;s&nbsp;illustrator lives.
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