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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – July 3, 2025
Greetings from Tyler, I’m writing this a day early, because we’re closing the office for the fourth. Who could have foreseen it? I can remember many statements about the end of the world. They were worried about having babies in the 1960’s, and what they’d have to go through. Well, it’s sixty years later and…
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