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If you check your inbox or mailbox today, there’s a good chance one of them contains an appeal from a nonprofit agency.It could be a newsletter containing information about new programs, or a r

Echoes ripple from the lonely barn, its doors agape, the music of rusty hinges piercing the silence. The horses, long gone, are nowhere to be seen. Yet on the dusty horizon, one can barely make