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Thanksgiving 2020 - Milwaukee Community Journal

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and needless to say this will be one for the books. We’ve never experienced life the way that we experienced this year. So many lives were lost, it caused us to see life in a new light. We’ve always known that our lives could be taken at any given […]

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