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How Reaching Rock Bottom Helped Me Take Control

Helen Vale — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:30:26 +0000

Things that others may take for granted mean the world to me and that is because I recovered from addiction two years, six months and 36 days ago. Well, maybe I never really fully recovered, though the blessed day I stopped using cocaine, will always be present in my mind. I am a 32-year-old mother of two beautiful children – Harry, eight, and Lydia, six. I work in the financial sector as does my husband, Martin.

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Surviving Pre Eclampsia and Living to Tell the Tale (Twice)

Anne Stephanie Cruz — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 04:40:55 +0000

For a woman, knowing that she is pregnant is one of the happiest days of her life. However, not everyone goes through this easily. For some women, complications arise in their preganancy which cause a very real threat to the life of mother and child. One of them is called pre-eclampsia

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Harriet Tubman And The Qualities That Made Her A Great Heroine

Sheryl Eleazar — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:54:14 +0000

Harriet Tubman was a great woman and a hero who served to help other people. Apart from being courageous, she also had a lot of other qualities that helped her live her life as a woman of honor.

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Karl Roy: The Legacy of a Filipino Rock Legend

Christopher Jan Benitez — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:22:19 +0000

For some, he is one the best vocalists in the country, if not the best. For others, he is the one of the most enduring Filipino rock icons in history. For me, however, he helped create the only album written by a local act that changed my life.

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