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We Didn’t Know We Were Poor

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When I was younger, I remember learning about the Great Depression. I read about the poverty of the 1930s, saw photographs of breadlines and families who had lost nearly everything, and watched The Grapes of Wrath. It all seemed like some distant, terrible period of American history, except that it really wasn’t that distant for

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We Didn’t Drive Away in a Corvette

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Last week, Dawn and I celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary. Forty-one years. It hardly seems possible. Like most couples, we’ve experienced seasons of abundance and seasons of scarcity, moments of certainty and moments when we wondered how everything would work out. We’ve made wise decisions and foolish ones. We’ve had victories worth celebrating and mistakes

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