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This Philly woman distributes 12,000 poems a year - to strangers

Nina Schafer, creator and sole ambassador of the Unexpected Poetry Project, has been at this for 4½ years, distributing poems in the course of her daily travels around the city.

Nina Schafer, right, offers a poem to Mohammad Ali, a food truck vendor in Center City April 10, 2018. Schafer hands out about 12,000 poems each year to people with whom she interacts.
Nina Schafer, right, offers a poem to Mohammad Ali, a food truck vendor in Center City April 10, 2018. Schafer hands out about 12,000 poems each year to people with whom she interacts.Read moreTRACIE VAN AUKEN/ For the Inquirer
    by Anndee Hochman, FOR THE INQUIRER
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