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- Oct 19, 2015
- 5 min
Buyers Beware: Being Spotted
It’s been two weeks since I “bought” my car. Everything seemed to have worked out great. Although I didn’t get the rate, I wanted the payment was manageable. About a week after I got the car I received a call from the dealer saying I needed to come in and resign the contract. Cool. I figured it was because I needed to pay the additional $500 for the down payment, which we had agreed to initially. It wasn’t. He continued and explained that the bank that was financing the loan
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- Oct 14, 2015
- 2 min
Clean Slates
Technology has really changed the world we live in. With this change came with a shift in the formation of personal relationships. Recently my circle of friends has widened and I’ve been making some new connections. But I’ve noticed something that really has me thinking. We often know a lot about people before we actually meet them, whether it was from someone else, the internet, or seeing them in passing. Lets be honest, in this day and age you can “know” so much about a per
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- Apr 24, 2014
- 1 min
Quoted
“God grant me the serenity to accept things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niehbur I never understood this quote before and I always thought it was so beautiful. But like many things in life we learn to accept sad truth. Experience brings wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Today, I have been enlightened to the meaning of this quote and suddenly it became a little less beautiful. My Directive:
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