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Addicted to Saving 101 Kicks Off Our Fundraising

Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM.

Written by Jeff

Last Thursday evening Liza conducted an Addicted to Saving 101 seminar for free to help kick off our fundraising for our two adoptions. Thus far the Lord has blessed us financially to be able to pay for some of the … Continued

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Liza
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My “Guest Blog” Post on AddictedtoSaving.com May 23, 2012
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