Off The Hook
July 21, 2017

Useful or not … you decide

By Melanie Behrens

When I came across this information, the first of which is supposed to help save your life, I decided we needed to talk about these things. Maybe some of this would fit into your life or maybe not. You’ll see what I mean.
The first advice is about driving across a train track, which many of us do e...

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