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Know Your Neighbors: Learn Life’s Lessons—and Then Pay Them Forward

by Anita Rufus January 1st, 2014December 16th, 2020

In 2000, Pay It Forward, a movie starring Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey and Hayley Joel Osment, made an indelible impression on me. I believe every occurrence in every moment of our lives is open for us to learn something from it—if we can just figure out what that lesson is, whether we like it or […]

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