“I want to be about it, not talk about it. I believe in providing when I’m elected. You put your trust in me, and I don’t want that trust violated.”

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“I want to be about it, not talk about it. I believe in providing when I’m elected. You put your trust in me, and I don’t want that trust violated.”

-Vanessa Falls, recently elected Southern Area Director of The Links, Incorporated; www.birminghamtimes, July 11.

Source: The Birmingham Times

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