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When we know our internal worth, we can see the true source
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With our dreams and decisions, we will still need to put in the work. Cultivating a vineyard is messy, backbreaking work
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School Daze
School Daze: Epilogue 
There are a lot of other ways to be successful than being academic. You are so much more than the grades you get!
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School Daze: Teaching  
Who would guess that the girl who was making every teacher miserable had such talent!
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Endless days blurred into months of upheaval. We strove to forge forward. Twenty-one readers reveal the single object that defined the tenor of these times
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Bedrock of Belief
Choose Life
We are in the world of planting, but the time to reap will come
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Bedrock of Belief
Anticipated Arrival
What do you really yearn for?
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F is for Friendship
Why Work Hard?
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F is for Friendship
F is for Friendship
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