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    • Evidence showing why state schools are no good for Christians or anyone else
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    • Home-Based Education Not “Does It Work?” but “Why Does It Work So Well?
  • Exemptions
    • Making an Application for Exemption from Enrolment and Attendance at a School
    • A Collection of Exemption Tips and Ideas
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    • Keystone Magazine
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        • 2002 Keystone Archives
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        • 2001 Keystone Archives
          • KEYSTONE Vol.VII No.I Jan 2001
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        • 2000 Keystone Archives
          • KEYSTONE Vol.VI No.I January 2000
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        • 1999 Keystone Archives
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          • KEYSTONE Vol.V No.IV July 1999
          • KEYSTONE Vol.V No.V September 1999
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        • 1998 Keystone Archives
          • KEYSTONE Vol.IV No.I March 1998
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          • KEYSTONE Vol.IV No.III Nov 1998
        • 1997 Keystone Archives
          • KEYSTONE Vol.III No.I Jan/Feb 1997
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        • 1996 Keystone Archives
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        • 1995 Keystone Archives
          • KEYSTONE Vol.I No.I March 1995
            • Should the Children of Christians Evangelise the Public Schools?
            • Imparting Wisdom
            • “Home schooling” or “Home education”?
            • Fundamentalism
          • KEYSTONE Vol.I No.II May/June 1995
            • Home Schooling and the Millennium
            • A Strategy for Home Schoolers
            • Teaching Other Peoples’ Children
            • What should we be doing now that there are no longer ERO reviews
          • KEYSTONE Vol.I No.III July/Aug 1995
            • God Wants PARENTS to Educate Their Own Children
          • KEYSTONE Vol.I No.IV Sept/Oct 1995
          • KEYSTONE Vol.I No.V Nov/Dec 1995
        • Keystone/TEACH Package – 1yr
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    • TEACH Bulletin
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          • TEACH Bulletin #12 Jan 1998
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          • TEACH Bulletin #1 Jan 1997
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          • TEACH Bulletin #6 June 1997
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          • TEACH Bulletin #11 Nov 1997
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    • Issacharian Daughters
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        • ID010 – Totally like whatever, you know? Part 2
        • ID009 – Totally like whatever, you know? Part 1
        • ID008 – LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD
        • ID007 – Courtship and Dating
        • ID006 – The Perfect Match
        • ID005 – The Woman who laughs
        • ID004 – Dying to self
        • ID003 – Dying to self
        • ID002 – Being a Beautifier
        • ID001 – Testimony
      • Issacharian Daughters-Introduction
    • Nouthetic Counseling Studies
      • Nouthetic counseling studies NZ
      • Nouthetic Counseling Books
        • Biblical Principles of Sex
        • Christ and Your Problems
        • The Christian Counselor’s Manual
        • Competent to Counsel
        • Christian’s Guide to Guidance
        • Handbook of Church Discipline
        • Godliness Through Discipline
        • How to Help People Change – The Four Step Biblical Process
        • Three to Get Ready: A Premarital Counseling Manual
        • What Do You Do When Pamphlet Set
    • Books: Secondhand
      • Book list 7~~~updated 18/03/15
      • Book list 8—02/04/15
      • Book list 9—Updated 18/03/15
      • Book list 10—updated 27/03/15
      • Book list 11 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book List 12 – updated 28/03/15
      • Book list 13 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 14 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 15b – updated 28/03/15
      • List 15a Russian Classic Set $20.00 updated with book titles in set
      • Book list 16 – updated 02/04/15
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      • Book list 22 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 23 – updated 30/03/15
      • Book list 24 – updated 30/03/15
      • Book list 25 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 26 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 27 – updated 28/03/15
      • Book list 28 – updated 16/03/15
      • Book list 29 – updated 30/03/15
      • Book list 30 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 31 – updated 30/03/15
      • Book list 32 – updated 14/03/15
      • Book list 33 – updated 16/03/15
      • Book list 34 – updated 30/03/15
      • Book list 35 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 36 – updated 18/03/15
      • Book list 37 – updated 28/03/15
      • Book list 38 – updated 02/04/15
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      • Book list 42 – updated 30/03/15
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      • Book list 45 – updated 02/04/15
      • Book list 46 – updated 20/03/15
      • Book list 47 RM Ballantyne – updated 08/04/15
      • Book list 48
      • Book list 49 – last updated 08/04/15
      • Book list 50 – last updated 08/04/15
      • Book List 51
      • Book List 52 – Craig’s study books
      • Book list 53 – updated 08/04/15
      • Book List 54 – Last updated 04/04/15
      • Book list 55 – last updated 08/04/15
      • Book list 56 – last updated 08/08/15
      • Book list 57 – last updated 08/04/15
      • Book List 58—updated 13/04/15
      • Book list 59—updated 13/04/15
      • Book list 60—update 13/04/15
      • Book list 61—updated 13/04/15
      • Book list 62—Updated 13/04/15
  • TEACH
    • Links to Media
      • Links to media 2012
        • Death Of The University As We Know It
      • Links to Media 2013
      • Links to media 2014
    • Home Schooling Success stories
      • Home Schooling Success stories 2012
    • TEACH: Coming Events
      • 2012 Coming Events
    • General
      • 2012 General
    • MoE/ERO
      • Letter to MoE re Changes to the Exemption Form
      • Letter to MoE Re ECE questions on exemption form
    • International Home Schooling
      • 2015 International Home schooling
      • 2012 International Home Schooling
        • Help a grieving home educating family
    • For Sale
      • 2012 For Sale
    • Situations vacant
      • 2012 Situations Vacant
    • Home Educators looking for work
      • 2012 Home Educators Looking for Work
    • HEF: Books for Sale
      • 2012 HEF: Books for Sale
  • YouTube with Craig
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 18 August 2011
      • Who am I?
      • What is the Home Education Foundation?
      • Am I qualified to teach my children? Parts 1, 2 and 3
      • What about testing
      • What about qualifications
      • How can I home educate if I’m not a trained teacher
      • If I home educate how can my children get into university Pt 1 & 2
      • How do I teach my children science?
      • How should I teach history?
      • How should I select a curriculum5
      • Do I need a classroom when I am Home schooling? Part 1 & 2
      • Where do I get home schooling resources?
      • How can I home educate on a single income?
      • How do I get an exemption to home educate in New Zealand?
      • How do I get an exemption to home educate in New Zealand?
      • How do I get started in home schooling?
      • What are five home education priorities?
      • What are five home education priorities?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 19 August 2011
      • How should I teach the 3Rs?
      • Why shouldn’t I institutionalize my children?
      • How can I home educate when family relationships aren’t so good?
      • What is the difference between schooling and education?
      • Where do our curricula ideas come from?
      • If I home educate will my children have friends?
      • Should I read to my children?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 20 August 2011
      • Can I home educate as a single mum?
      • What is a father’s role in home education?
      • Can’t my wife just do that home educating thing?
      • How can I lead my family in home educating?
      • How can I protect my wife from burning out when home schooling?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 21 August 2011
      • What place does family devotions have in home education?
      • In my Home Education Should I follow the school year?
      • If we home educate won’t my children miss out on the healthy competition in the classroom?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 23 August 2011
      • Should I foster in New Zealand?
      • What are the long term effects of fostering on your family?
      • Does home education and fostering mix?
      • What is the adoption process like in New Zealand?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 25 August 2011
      • Craig Smith speaking on “Will my life change much if I home educate?”
      • I’m not patient enough to home educate!
      • How will I be able to stand being around my children all day every day?
      • How can I motivate my children?
      • How can I home educate with preschoolers?
      • How should I home educate my preschoolers? Part 2
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 30 August 2011
      • Do I need to protect my children from other children?
      • What is the #1 issue I need to settle? Pt 1
      • What is the #1 issue I need to settle? Pt 2
      • What is the #1 issue I need to settle? Pt 3
      • What is the #1 issue I need to settle? Pt 4
      • What is the #1 issue I need to settle? Pt 5
      • What does it mean to be a Christian Pt 1
      • What does it mean to be a Christian Pt 2
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 1 Sept 2011
      • My friend wants me to teach their kids too. Should I?
      • What extra curricula activities are there available to home educators?
      • What topics should I teach at home that never get taught at school?
      • What if my children have learning gaps?
      • Why should I consider home education? Pt 1-2
      • I’m a Christian but can’t I send my children to state schools?
      • Shouldn’t the government be paying me to home educate?
      • How do I cope with disapproving grandparents?
      • How do I cope with a disapproving church?
      • How much should I spend per child each year on home education?
      • What is the difference between Greek and Hebrew education?
      • How should I home eduate special needs children?
      • I want to move to New Zealand. What is it like to home educate there?
      • Where is the best place to home educate in New Zealand?
      • Should we sing the national anthem every morning?
      • What is classical education?
      • How can I teach my children to think?
      • How should I teach my children about money?
      • How should I conduct family worship?
      • Should I put my child on ritalin? Pt 1 and 2
      • How do I keep my children from killing each other?
      • How can I home educate while I’m pregnant with twins?
      • How can I home educate while I’m sick as a dog?
      • How can I home educate and care for my elderly parent?
      • How should I teach reading?
      • Is the look say method really so bad?
      • What are the positives and negatives for field trips?
      • What if my application to home educate is declined?
      • What are the positives and negatives for textbooks?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 2 September 2011
      • What are the positives and negatives for flashcards?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 4 September 2011
      • Book: Mover of Men and Mountains
      • Book: Mover of Men and Mountains Pt 2
      • Books: Christianity Among the New Zealanders
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 5 September 2011
      • Why should I read Rushdoony? Parts 1 – 3
      • Training a child in the way they should go
      • Book: Calvin’s Institutes
      • What is the most fulfilling adventure?
      • Book: Emotional Purity
      • Book: So Much More
      • Book: I Kissed Dating Goodbye
      • Book: Biblical Economics
      • Book: Christian Modesty
      • Book: Training Our Children
      • Book: Preparing for an ERO Review
      • Book: Sanctifying Our Sons and Our Daughters
      • Book: 15 Things Every Father Must Do With His Sons
      • Book: Negotiating the Curriculum Maze
      • Book: Your Worldview Has Implications
      • Book: Applying for an Exemption to Educate at Home
      • Book: The Evidence of the Superiority of Home Education Over Conventional Schooling
      • Book: An Introduction to Home Education in New Zealand
      • Book: The Christian Imperative
      • Book: The Duties of Parents
      • Book: The Timechart History of the World
      • Book: Better Late Than Early
      • Book: Spiritual Disciplines
      • Authors: Douglas and Nancy Wilson – Reforming Marriage and The Fruit of her Hands
      • What other topics are home educators investigating?
      • Book: The Underground History of American Education
      • Book: The Harsh Truth About Public Schools
      • Book: Understanding the Times
      • How will my children turn out?
      • How will I know my children have learned enough?
      • Should we have a graduation ceremony and life after home schooling
      • If I home educate my children will miss out on prom!
      • How can I prepare my children for tertiary education?
      • How can I prepare my children for the workforce?
      • How do I fill out my exemption form?
    • Q & A with Craig Smith recorded 6 September 2011
      • How do I deal with the MOE/ERO?
      • How do I pull my children out of school? Part 1
      • How do I pull my children out of school? Pt 2
      • What are the tools of learning?
      • How do I keep going when the going gets tough?
      • How do I develop my own curriculum?
      • How do I choose a curriculum?
      • How do I create my own library?
      • What are the three kinds of people?
      • Is it possible to discipline children in an undisciplined society?
      • What’s wrong with school?
      • What is home education?
  • Events
  • Bookshop
  • Web Specials
  • Coming Events
    • Trevlyn McCallum’s visit to the North Island Oct/Nov 2015
    • Coming Events Archives
      • Coming Events Archives 2011
        • A Passion For Jesus Conferences in New Zealand and Australia in January
        • Home Education Awareness Week 31 October – 5 November 2011
        • South Island Home EducationTour 2011
          • Nelson Home Eduction Workshop 26 March 2011
          • Westport Home Educators workshop 28 March 2011
          • Hokitika Home Educators Workshop 29 March 2011
          • Te Anau Home Education Workshop
          • Invercargill Home Educators Workshop 1 April 2011
          • Dunedin Home Education Workshop: 2 April 2011
          • Oamaru Home Educators Workshop
          • Timaru Home Educators Workshop 5 April 2011
          • Getting Started in Home Schooling and keeping Going: Christchurch 6 and 7 April 2011
          • Kaikoura Home Education Workshop 8 April 2011
          • Blenheim Home Educators Workshop 9 April 2011
        • Dr Jay Wile conferences in June 2011
          • Dr Jay Wile (Apologia Science) to visit NZ next June
          • Palmerston North: Science by Design Conference
          • Auckland: Science by Design Conference Friday 10th & Saturday 11th June, 2010
          • Nelson: Science by Design Conference Sunday 13 & Monday 14 June 2011
        • THE BOOM FAMILY N.Z Tour
          • Whangarei 14 April 2011
          • THE BOOM FAMILY N.Z Tour: Palmerston North 28 April 2011
          • THE BOOM FAMILY N.Z Tour: Wanganui 29 April 2011
          • New Plymouth 30 April
        • HEART Retreat Matamata 2012
        • Dave & Neta Jackson February 2012
      • Coming Events Archives 2010
        • Home Education Conference in Hamilton – 6 March 2010
          • 6 March – More information on the Sessions
          • Register for the Hamilton 6 March conference here
          • Specials at the THEN Conference 2010
        • Mind Your Brain’ tour of NZ with Terry Small 11-18 March 2010
          • Mind Your Brain tour – Palmerston North: Thursday 11 March 2010
          • Mind Your Brain tour – Auckland: 12 & 13 March 2010
          • Mind Your Brain tour – Christchurch: 17th & 18th March 2010
        • Rosie Boom Home Education Conference: Wanganui 30-31 July 2010
          • Wanganui Home Educators Conference with Rosie Boom
        • Some 2010 Coming events
        • Heart Retreat Matamata 25-27 June 2010.
        • Homeschool camp October 18-22 2010
          • 2010 Homeschool camp-venue change
          • 2010 Homeschool Camp programme
      • Coming Events Archives 2009
        • Home Education Workshop Masterton-20 June 2009
        • HEART RETREAT 2009
        • Diana Waring in New Zealand and Australia
          • Sponsors for the Living Learning Laughing Conferences in New Zealand
          • Christchurch: Sept 11th and 12th, 2009
            • CHRISTCHURCH LIVING LAUGHING AND LEARNING CONFERENCE!
            • Home Education Christchurch Conference Update. 11-12 September
          • Palmerston North: Tuesday 15 Sept 2009
          • Hastings: Wed 16 Sept 2009
          • Auckland: Sat 19 September 2009
          • Inverell: Tuesday 22 September 2009
          • Sydney: 25 – 26 September 2009
          • Maitland: Monday 28th September 2009
          • Brisbane: 10 October 2009
          • Melbourne: 16 – 17 October 2009
          • Adelaide: 19 – 20 October 2009
          • Canberra: 23 – 24 October 2009
        • “AM I DOING ENOUGH?”
        • A home schooling family camp: November 17 – 20, 2009
        • AHE’s History Fair: 22 September
        • “Why the Referendum Answer is No”: Friday 24 July, 5.30pm
        • Whangarei Home Educators’ Support Group Annual Symposium: 22 August 2009
        • Home Education Awareness Week 12 to 17 October 2009
    • Red Tape Cluster Buster
    • NZ Family Discipleship Seminar 13 Sept 2014
  • About
    • Introduction to Home Education Foundation
    • Secular Introduction
    • A Personal Testimony about Home Education
    • A Brief History of Home Education in New Zealand by Craig Smith
    • Our children’s Certificates of Exemption from enrolment at a registered School
      • Genevieve’s Certificate of Exemption 21/3/86
      • Zach’s Certificate of Exemption 8/10/87
      • Alanson’s Certificate of Exemption 26/1/90
      • Kaitlyn’s exemption October 2006
      • Grace’s first exemption attempt which was declined the week before Craig died
      • Grace’s second exemption attempt
    • Craig Smith 26/1/51 to 30/9/11
      • Craig’s diary page 1: 8 July to 31 August 2011
        • Craig’s diary page 2: 1 Sept to 30 Sept 2011
      • Charmagne’s wedding
      • Craig Smith’s health page 1
        • Craig Smith’s Health page 2
        • Craig Smith’s Health page 3
        • Craig Smith’s Health page 4
        • Craig Smith’s Health page 5
        • Life for Those Left Behind (Craig Smith’s Health) page 6
          • Letter to supporters of the Home Education Foundation
        • One year on (Craig Smith’s Health) page 7
          • Thankyou family and friends
        • Craig Smith 26 January 1951 to 30 September 2011
          • Craig Smith’s health (copy)
      • Craig’s Funeral 7 Oct 2011
        • Zach’s Tribute on behalf of the Craig Smith family
        • Susan Sullivan’s Tribute (Craig’s sister)
        • David Waldron’s Tribute on behalf of families (Read by his daughter Naomi)
        • Tribute: Genevieve
        • Tribute: Geoffrey Botkin
    • Affidavite in support of Home Education
    • Charity Summary
  • Beyond Covid
  • Contact
  • International
    • submission in support of Home Educators in NSW
    • Sweden
      • Translation Verdict Case no. T 1058-11.pdf
      • Translation. Verdict Svea Court of Appeal.pdf
    • Christian family facing deportation for homeschooling
    • Kenyan Home Educators
    • Wunderlich family
    • Welsh Home Educators
    • HSLDA – (CRPD)
    • Spanish invitation
  • Titus 2
    • Essential Oils
      • Helichrysum
  • Workshop PowerPoints
  • Post earthquake schooling options
  • Beneficiaries
    • Affidavite in support of Home Education
    • Make A Submission
      • The Benefit and Home Schooling
      • Memorandum – Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill 2012
    • Making an Oral Submission to the Select Committee
    • Submission Form
    • List Of Members Of Parliament September 2012
    • Submissions
      • Submission: Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill
      • Submission made online
      • Against forced child care from age 3
      • Don’t want our rights to raise our children taken from us
      • Children’s best interests would NOT be served by compulsory attendance at E.C. E. facilities
      • One size does not fit all.
      • The bill actively discriminates against beneficiaries
      • Blatant discrimination of those receiving a benefit
      • Young children do best in all aspects of life in the care of their family
      • Healthy people build healthy communities. Healthy family attachments build healthy people.
      • From a single Mother
      • ECE doesn’t seem to suit every child
      • It is institutional misogyny
      • I strongly disagree that children so young (3 years) need to be in Early Childhood Centre
      • From a Solicitor and Notary Public and mother of four children
      • Importance of establishing secure attachment relationships during infancy in order to optimise brain development
      • I feel my own family will suffer majorly if this Bill was to pass.
      • I am a 20 year old single male
      • For many children ‘later’ is better than ‘earlier’ when it comes to institutional education
      • Three year olds are far too young to be away from their parents
      • This is unfair and discriminatory
      • The Bill is discriminatory and marginalises beneficiaries
      • Motherless and Fatherless children of NZ forced to have the only parent they have taken away!
      • An enforced separation of parent and child at the hands of government in exchange for financial assistance is both cruel and contrary to the nature of our free society
      • Every child and every family is different!
      • This legislation targets good parents – not the bad ones
      • The government is saying that because I’m a solo parent I’m unable to make the right decisions for my children
      • This is the worst kind of government interference into how people choose to raise their families
      • It is offensive that the job my mother has done and so many other single parents do, is so under-valued
      • ECE is not beneficial and is not and can not be a substitute for a caring, loving home environment
      • Trust good parents to make good decisions
      • I am a mother, not a babysitter and I absolutely oppose this bill
      • Trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, slavery and deception
      • This is invasive legislation discriminating against excellent parents and removing their freedom to raise their children in a secure loving environment and not going to achieve better lives for neglected children
      • This proposed bill will show the New Zealand Government to be punitive and untrustworthy
      • Children do not belong to the state
      • From Romania: Please learn from the mistakes others did in history! Thank you!
      • Children need to be with their family, and nurtured, they must not be treated as tools to force parents to comply with this bill.
      • I also believe it enforces the detachment of children from their parents at an age which can be detrimental for many
      • The bill falsely presumes that all beneficiaries’ children are at risk
      • A child’s right is to be with their parents. To be loved and nurtured and protected.
      • Family Integrity’s submission
      • In it’s breadth it overshoots and impinges on the basic rights of dedicated and thinking parents such as myself
      • Please do the right thing and don’t sully New Zealand’s reputation: vote down this bill
      • It is a well researched, known and documented fact that it is parental involvement that makes the difference in regards to educational outcomes, not the institutional education of a child
      • Keep our mana intact, don’t steal our children
      • Reject compulsory ECE
      • From a small Home Education Support Group
      • This National government would be well advised and warned to examine carefully the agendas of those who have promoted, lobbied for and recommended the actions in this bill in order to maintain peace, good relations, civility and lawful behaviour in our communities
      • Introducing this bill will not achieve a healthy end result for the wonderful country we live in
      • Staying in the home saves everyone money including the government money in not having to fund ECE’s
      • New Zealand jails are full of people who went to school not people who were home-educated
      • Submission from the USA — Author of “Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys”
      • To be a beneficiary in Christchurch with an added ‘bonus’ of this reform will utterly destroy some
      • Those Who Would Give Away Their Children for Money, Deserve Neither Children NOR Money
      • I believe the Welfare Reform Bill to be invalid not only for human rights breaches but also as a Maori for the breach of Article 2 of the Treaty and the breach of the UNDRIP which was endorsed by government in 2010.
      • Home-educated children do HALF of all the BAD CITIZEN things and DOUBLE all of the GOOD CITIZEN things
      • Stephen’s submission
      • We are people, Real People
      • Home Education Foundation’s submission
      • I worked at an Early Childhood Center before our little ones were born, we would never send our children to an Early Childhood Education Center
      • The negative impact of early education is well documented and well ignored by government
      • What a step backwards this bill is!
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      • Is this law about the mighty dollar or about social engineering?
      • Are 100% of beneficiaries to be treated as though they need to be kept away from their children
      • Barbara Smith’s submission
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Genevieve’s wedding

Posted on 2008-02-24 by Barbara

Maiden daughters lining up before the service:

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