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When I was 15, my best friend, Emily, offered to bring me to her Catholic church

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Just to see, she said. You might like it. I was profoundly in love with her. She was beautiful and funny, and we were inseparable. She had a chin dimple and soft skin, and she used to hook her arm in mine when we would walk down the street. I think she thought it was a joke. We only ever fought about two things: abortion and gay rights. I was in favor of both. She thought I was a heathen who was (in her unspoken opinion) definitely going to hell. We used to drive around in my Ford Explorer and...

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In 12 Reasons Why Your Next Gig Should Be Work-at-Home we discussed the why of working at home – as in why you should

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My hope was that in spelling out why work-at-home is a better way to earn a living, you’ll be sufficiently motivated make any effort needed to make it happen. It’s how I work, and I never get tired of promoting its virtues to anyone who might be willing. In today’s article I’d like to cover how to create work-at-home gigs. They’re not as common as we’d like to think, which is proven by the fact that more people aren’t doing it already. How to Create Work-at-Home Gigs Just as I reported in the first article, use of the word “gigs”...

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