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Shortly after her roofless purchase, Mary The Mountaineers are looking to raise

Jo returned to co-sign on one of her sons’ $1,000,000 before June. Club Braman
BMW X3; and several of her staff shortly members inspired by Mary Jo and her team’s
followed. Overnight, they’d become a Club work can donate now to this goal at www.
Braman family. Further uniting them MSAinc.org. The timing could not be any more

was each vehicle’s final touch—a set of appropriate, as April is World Autism Month.
boxing gloves hanging from the rearview

mirror; representative of the fight they From the exterior, the academy is as
all ferociously wage every day for their recognizable as any other private school.
children, students, and the entire extended It’s easy to acknowledge while passing
Mountaineer family. by; however, far too few understand the
mountains being ascended just beyond the
It’s a mindset familiar to many Club Braman doors. While the former is necessary, the
members. Fortunately, those anxious to lace latter is crucial for progress. Closing that
up their own gloves have a chance to do so: gap is far more doable than cracking even
the building currently housing the school a fraction of the universe’s mysteries, but it
will be offered for sale in the summer of 2022. will require a fight.

Mary Jo’s intention is to secure ownership,
and further expand her efforts—doubling It’s one that Braman Motorcars is immensely
down on services for siblings of those on proud to support.
the spectrum, who currently lack support
structures of their own. For them, a trip to the To learn more about the Mountaineer’s School
beach or restaurant free of perverse stares of Autism, access resources, and donate,
and hushed comments is a depressingly please visit MSAinc.org.
extraordinary and sorely necessary wish.

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