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There’s no cutting corners for Morgan Johnson

Morgan Johnson’s many activities away from basketball included volunteering as a peer leader at Siegrist Elementary School in Platte City, where she received a hug from third-grader Claire Wilhelm.

Her calendar stays full even on the laziest days of her life.

On a sunny midday morning last week, while many Platte County graduates — their get-out-of-school card in hand — would have ignored the alarm clock, Morgan Johnson rose at about the same time that her first-period advanced composition class would have started. She took the family dog, Maddie, for a walk, then jogged a mile around the neighborhood. No cutting corners around the light pole for her.

Then, Johnson, too busy to eat the other half of that Toaster Strudel she had left cold on the breakfast table, changed into her 38-inch-inseam blue jeans and visited Siegrist Elementary. There, the students in Mrs. Long’s third-grade class stared up, way up, at their friend.

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