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"It is my job as your teacher to stand beside you as you unveil your strengths and inner beauty to the world," Megan Allen wrote.

Teacher writes from her heart

Megan Allen is Florida's teacher of the year. The fourth-grade teacher at Tampa's Cleveland Elementary beat out more than 180,000 teachers.

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