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Exploring Veteran’s Benefits

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

His Grandfather was a WWI Vet, who died of complications from disease that he contracted while on active duty in a war zone. For many years, this man’s wife and family lived near poverty after the Grandfather died of this disease. Consequently, just because he is a veteran does not mean he is eligible for many of the VA benefits.

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Taking Care of Your Parents and In-Laws

Nicoles Nickels

My father’s mother ended up in a nursing home and my parents have expressed a desire to be able to remain at home and hopefully will be able to do so with their long term care insurance. My mother’s parents never needed any long term care and both died otherwise very healthy, just of older age.

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Sunday Reads 10/23/16: Free Kindle eBooks

For the Mommas

After the death of her grandfather, Lin Coffin returns to the island of her birth, Nantucket, Massachusetts, to make a new start in life, but things don’t begin smoothly. Three brothers, Jackson, Mitch, and Garret Indigo are summoned back home to tiny Indigo Key by their mother. A Haunted Murder by J A Whiting.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Nicoles Nickels

to Grandfather’s house we go; . I’m pretty sure I always sang it as Grandmother’s house, which is weird since we actually went to my Grandfather’s house for holidays. The day starts/started with my mother or me or now my daughter getting up and stuffing the bird and getting it into the oven.

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Music Minute - Brady Seals: Deeper Shade of Blue-Collar

Motherhood Moments

Seals’ grandfather was a Kentucky sharecropper and coal miner and his grandma worked on the farm. His mother cleaned houses for a living. In 1996 Seals pursued a solo career, collaborating with the legendary Rodney Crowell to co-produce his Warner Brothers album, The Truth. A self-titled CD followed in 1998.

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15 Best Selling Kindle Books for $4 or Less

Saving With Shellie

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered. She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. As a kid, Jacob formed a special bond with his grandfather over his bizarre tales and photos of levitating girls and invisible boys. Definitely a page turner!

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Cheap and Free Kindle Books: Handcuffs & High Heels And More

For the Mommas

So when a baby lands on the doorstep of the Texas Brand, his first question is which younger brother is in for a butt-kicking? With a self-absorbed mother, an estranged father, and an older brother on the other side of the world, only the unlikely friendship with his grandfather can lure Jacob back home.