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isPermaLink="false">http://diesmart.com/?p=7318</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recently, the Wall Street Journal weekend edition had a very interesting article titled &#8220;25 Documents You Need Before You Die.&#8221; Basically, it says that you should make sure that the originals of all of your valuable papers are put somewhere safe and that a loved one knows where that safe place is. Otherwise, when you [...]<div
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