The daughter of the president of a local orphanage on Long Island, New York, young Jill often spent weekends playing with the very children her mother cared for during the week.

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The goal was for the Kiwanis clubs to donate the new shoes and for the K-Kids to write letters to children in the orphanage.

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Jon lived the first two years of his life in a Guatemala City orphanage, before moving to New Jersey with his adopted family.

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