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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

When they got married, they bought a duplex so that the rent money from the tenant in the upstairs apartment would pay the mortgage. The fact that neither one of us likes to cook and neither one of us is particularly good at it might have had something to do with it, too. My mom cut coupons and sewed her own clothes and mine, as well.