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WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — Building Homes for Heroes, PulteGroup’s Built to Honor, and other companies have joined forces to give Gold-Star siblings a brand-new mortgage-free home in Wesley Chapel. Nazeraeh Montrond lost her father, Army Sergeant Alberto Montrond, in February 2006 to an IED explosion in Afghanistan. Then last year, Nazaraeh’s mother passed away leaving the 22-year-old […]

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