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A DAY IN THE LIFE

Founder of Storytelling Center Plots New Opportunities for His Charity

By Marilyn Dickey

Johnson City, Tenn.

It's 7:30 a.m. and Jimmy Neil Smith is sitting in a booth at an IHOP restaurant here. Dressed in a casual suit topped by a bolo tie, he is meeting two longtime friends, businessmen who teach a course together in entrepreneurship at East Tennessee State University. The three are getting together...

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