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Your Friendly Neighborhood Locksmith

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9.26
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At the age of 12, my father, Gregory, installed his very first lock. He was hanging around his brother’s key shop when a priest came in needing …

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A Raise Long Overdue

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9.25
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Michele began working for her employer in 2005 . She hit the ground running in the quest of becoming a stellar employee by slashing past data entry …

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Hard Working Man

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9.25
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I don’t have a heart-tugging story for you; or a tale of one overcoming enormous obstacles in the face of insurmountable odds.  All I can tell you …

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The Love and Pain of a Hard-Working American Mother

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9.27
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Tammie is a hard worker when it comes to everything. She started as a full-time mother, caring for three sons and a daughter. Tammie and her husband, …

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Special Lady Helps Children with Special Needs

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9.46
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Teresa grew up in a mill village.  In her day, no one on the mill village aspired to a higher education, much less a little girl with an undiagnosed …

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Ingeborg's Song

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9.26
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Ingeborg’s   Song !

Watching through the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp, people stripping off their clothes, lined up and shot, …

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He's been workin' on the railroad...

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9.27
(9.27)

I don’t know how my boyfriend does it.  Each morning that he works, he gets up at 5am, drives over an hour to work at the railyard for a 12 hour shift…

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Selfless women deserves a raise.

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9.32
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I am writing this to give the world a chance to get to know an absolutely amazing woman.
My sister Cathi, She has to be one of the strongest women I …

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A Boy Scout Leader Who Goes the Extra Mile!

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9.28
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Deborah started off as a Cub Scout leader for her son’s pack, sharing the responsibility with her husband, Lloyd. When Lloyd went back to school two…

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My Daughter Does It All And Then Some

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9.27
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When my grand-daughter turned three months old, her mother made the hard decision to move from Tennessee back to Alabama and moved in with me.  My …

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