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Living Safe is to encourage you on your journey.
When you believe that what you are
Does it matter? doing does not matter, know that it truly
does. Not getting paid for something
makes it no less important. The world
By Pete Hypes
measures success on a much different
y first assignment after boot should matter, but does it? scale. In fact, the people closest to you
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course, He brought me back. When I enough for me. As many of you know,
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