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Demeter

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27. I have motives

Reply to xchrom (Reply #12)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 10:10 AM

Feb 2012

and it's a committee--trying to grow a social network, so the community is not just a place where people drop their junk, park their kids and go off to outside lives...

Also we offered help in filling out proxies, so that we won't have to schedule a 3rd annual meeting...

Once you point out it costs nearly 2 grand in printing for each attempt, people get surprisingly cooperative.

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