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hunter

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17. And his kids could go to college without loans, paying for it with summer jobs.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:19 AM

Oct 2013

I graduated from college without any loans. My dad had an ordinary middle class union job.

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