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When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle five years ago, it left boats, cars and trucks piled up to the windows of Bonny Paulson’s home in the tiny coastal community of Mexico Beach, Florida, even though the house rests on pillars 14 feet above the ground. But Paulson’s home, with a rounded shape that looks something...
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Blinkered Blinken. USA Land of the free, my bollax
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Genuinely curious and ignorant about restitution from inmates who spend the read of their lives in prison....
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