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A child laughs at Elmo and Rosita during a screening of a Sesame Street special, "Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change," at the Pentagon, March 18, 2009. Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization, has spent two years creating materials to help military families with children cope with deployments, homecomings and changes.

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A child laughs at Elmo and Rosita during a screening of a Sesame Street special, "Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change," at the Pentagon, March 18, 2009. Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization, has spent two years creating materials to help military families with children cope with deployments, homecomings and changes.

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