Time Flies when you are having fun!

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 It has been a while between posts as life got very busy! Meanwhile Grace, Sam, Rosalie and Lorelei successfully completed the 2023 MS Readathon raising a total of $543.46 and reading 302 books!  They all loved the experience and were very excited to raise this much money for such a wonderful cause. We have big plans for next years MS Readathon fund raising and will be attempting a more ambitious book total too!





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