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Sheri

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7. i worry about my children.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2013, 11:43 AM

Nov 2013

they'll go to college, come out in debt, and then say, "now what?"

now what, indeed. what jobs there are don't pay enough to live on--90% of them, anyway. it's depressing.

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