aliyah

It was a real pleasure to have a nice long conversation this week with, Jessica Kupferberg.Jessica is a writer and former litigation attorney. She made aliyah from La Jolla, California with her family during Operation Protective Edge in July 2014 after driving across America. She blogs for the Times of Israel and her work has appeared in The Jerusalem Post, Kveller.com, The Jewish Journal, The Forward, Jweekly, aish.com, and as part of Project 929 English.

Some of the things we talked about 

• How Jessica started writing 
• Some of her inspirations
• What life is like now in Efrat years after her Aliyah
• What it was like to have older children when moving to Israel
• Some of the great benefits of living in Efrat

Check out Jessicas Blog:

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/jessica-levine-kupferberg/

Check out Jessicas' Recent Projects:

"When we Turned Within:"

You can find the paperback here: amazon.com/dp/B08L9S68T4.

The Kindle version is here: amazon.com/dp/B08LDYZNKP.

"In this Strange Springtime" 

Poem and Artist Book collaboration with  Andi LaVine Arnovitz.Signed and numbered. Edition of 25.A poignant look at Corona and this time in our lives. (reach out to us through social channels to check availability) 

Jacqueline moved to Israel from London, England in 1998. She now lives in
Modiin with her husband and five children.

Jacqueline was multi-taking and juggling life, work, family, responsibilities etc until she discovered Yoga Nashit – Yoga for Women's Health.

Through her studies and teaching, she has been able to develop a deeper
understanding, awareness and connection to her body, how it works and how
it naturally changes over time. Using yoga tools and techniques, Jacqueline
has found practical ways to create balance and manage expectations despite
her very busy life.

Her mission now is to support and empower women to improve their own
health and well-being. She specifically works with women on their menopause
journey helping them navigate this time with ease and confidence.
Jacqueline qualified as a Yoga for Pregnancy Instructor at the Wingate
Institute in 2014. She qualified as a Yoga Nashit Instructor in 2017 with Mira
Atzi-Padan (founder of Yoga Nashit). Most recently, in 2019, she qualified as
a Therapeutic Yoga Instructor at Campus Broshim School of Integrative
Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

For all her social media:
Website: https://www.theyogaroom120.com/       
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Artwork: Leon Weinreb

Tali Kaplinski Tarlow is owner of Israel ScaVentures, Israel’s foremost educational tour game company. With a background in both formal and informal education, Tali combined her love for Israel and her passion for experiential education to create an experience that is loved by Israeli’s and tourists alike. To date Israel ScaVentures runs more than 20 routes all over Israel, with staff trained to work in 4 languages. ScaVentures Jerusalem is Tali’s first book, it invites the reader to explore and discover Jerusalem for themselves.  Tali lives in Gush Etzion with her husband, Daniel and their four 4 children. Tali is happiest when she is exploring new places in Israel, geeking out over history books and plotting new and crazy ideas.

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/israel-scaventures/

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Eden Adler is a neuroscientist turned software engineer, who moved to Israel in September 2015. After graduating from the University of Michigan, she decided to pivot her career from medicine to tech. She moved to Israel, completed a 5-month coding bootcamp in Tel Aviv, and was hired as a software developer and early employee at the insurtech company, Lemonade. Outside of work, Eden is one of the team members behind Women of Startup Nation, a community of over 18,000 people that aims to share the stories and showcase role models of women in technology in Israel. She is also a board member of Olim in Tech, a community of over 3,500 people that helps connect olim, new immigrants, who work or want to work in tech in Israel.

For all her social media:
Website: www.edenadler.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edenadler
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_whatthetech
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenofstartupnation

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Chaya Lev moved to Israel 4 years ago after surviving breast cancer at just forty years old.  She had booked an appointment with her doctor for a "routine" breast examination. At that time, everything in my life felt routine.  She was over-weight and over-stressed and was living in the shadow of happiness.  She received a wake up call that forever changed her life.

Now every day of her life is an adventure. Ordering coffee and speaking to interesting people is an adventure.  Going to the post office and finding new doctors (most of the time in my new language), is an adventure. Chaya is thriving and teaching dance here in Israel and has added activist to the long list of things she is doing to help others.

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Andi is a Professional Life Coach, Global Personal Development Strategist & Lumina Practitioner, NLP Master, published author, motivational speaker, lover of books, coffee, kindness and sport. In her spare time, she is involved in charity work and community. 
Andi’s coaching practice incorporates techniques and tools from the fields of Behavioral Science, Organizational Communications, Psychology, Mindfulness & NLP.
Andi works with private individual clients as well as teams, managers, leaders and business owners.
Andi experienced the magic of Israel a young teen on family vacation and lived in Israel for 1 year at age 14. Grwoing up in a zionist home and community in Johannesburg, Andi's love for Israel was part of her upbringing and education. After spending a year's leadership program gap year in Israel after school, Andi decided she really wanted to study at Bar Ilan University. She left her home and family in South Africa and moved across the world at 18 years old and studied Psychology at BIU and graduated with distinction. 

She continued to further her studies with MA correspondence in Organizational Behavior and Communications. After working for 15 years in the non-profit world with fundraising campaigns and donor relations and resource development, Andi decided to pursue her life's mission of becoming a Personal Development Coach. 

Andi completed her studies at the esteemed Adler Institute in Hebrew and continues to grow her expertise and knowledge through regular courses and workshops making sure she is always learning. Andi is a member of the International Coaching Federation and a lead mentor at Turning Point where she helps clients around the world make meaningful, effective and lasting change personally & professionally. 

Andi lives in Raanana, is married to her best friend since her Aliya and is the blessed mom of 3 awesome children who were all born in Israel.

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Pnina first fell in love with Israel when she came to spend a year in the country after finishing high school, on her gap year. She spent the year living in the old city while studying. It was crazy to believe that the very stones that housed her, held thousands of years of memories. In short, she fell in love with the history, the people and the hope that Israel has always brought and continues to bring. 
Pnina returned to my home in Melbourne, Australia and began to feel a void that grew bigger as time went on. She diagnosed myself with FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), from the action and history that is created every single day in Israel. Israel had become a huge part of her heart and it wasn't before long, she planned to make Aliyah. When the day of her Aliyah arrived, she left her family in tears as the infamous 'swallowing doors' by passport control took me away to my future. She felt like a shtetl jew going to the 'Goldener Medina', not knowing when or how she would see her family again (Australia was simply too far and expensive to fathom). 
Pnina arrived in Israel and began life in the Merkaz Klita Ulpan in Jerusalem and made friends for life. A year in, she found her dream job, and met her husband. 2 years in, her sister and BFF, made Aliyah. 3 years in, her parents and my other sister followed them and made Aliyah too. A year after that, she and her sister were married 2 months of each other. Fast forward almost 9 years later, she and her husband are privileged to watch their 2 little kids grow up in this magical country.

Dror for the Wounded Foundation:

The Dror for the Wounded Foundation helps wounded Israeli soldiers and provides these brave individuals with financial assistance for medical and psychological treatments, education and training, small construction projects, advocacy, and general financial aid. In allocating resources, we consider each soldier’s individual situation and need. Our aim is to make sure our soldiers get back on their feet and we do everything in our power to make sure that happens.

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Website: www.Drorfoundation.org
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twitter: https://twitter.com/dror4thewounded

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Danielle Mazin is a proud British Israeli Milliner. Born and raised in London and after studying Fashion Design and Marketing at the London College of Fashion for 5 years I graduated in 2009. 

She made Aliyah in June 2012. It was never a plan. She came for a summer holiday and stayed… 18 months later she had no choice but to stay! She lived in Jerusalem for 2 years and then it was time to move on..living in Tel Aviv for the past 6 years and in the past 4 years she is proud to have created Danielle Mazin Hats, the only bespoke hat shop in the city and a leading milliner in Israel.   

Danielle landed her millinery passion whilst looking for hats at the time of her wedding and she was unable to find nice hats in Israel and ended up creating wedding hats for herself. Here she discovered my love for Millinery and Hats!

At Danielle Mazin they love creating bespoke, custom designs and pieces that can be custom-made to meet your function, style, budget and time requirements. Each hat we create is feminine and glamorous. Her designs combine dual essence of British millinery and Royal signature flare to my designs. 

For all her social media:
Email: info@daniellemazin.com
Website: www.daniellemazin.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellemazinhats/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/daniellemazinhats/

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Leanne Kaye is a mother of 3 high energy boys. Poet/performer by night, marketing consultant and women’s health care coordinator by day. Leanne is also a published author of I’m a Previvor- My Secret Legacy with a second book on the way. 

Leanne made Aliyah from the UK to Raanana in 2008. She is a serial entrepreneur and professional motivational speaker within the women’s health field.

For all her social media:
Link to her book- My Secret Legacy-https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0836GLQG6/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Lyrics from Lockdown https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088DLXYM8
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/previvorlife/
Website: https://www.evepressbooks.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanne_previvorlife/  

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Rina Barbut, immigrated to Israel from Turkey in 2008. Back home, she studied Computer Engineering and was employed as an IT Manager at the company where she worked. In Israel she advanced in her career and worked in Global Technology Companies (in Business and Technology Related Positions) such as; Eset, Nice Systems, Microsoft and currently she is working in Check Point Software Technologies. She completed her second degree in Israel, International MBA

She was a Jewish Activist for years and led educational and social activities in Turkey and Europe. She loves volunteering (medical clown at hospital) and enjoys her life with her friends and many different activities

In parallel, she is running her own initiative, JConnect Forum, which offers a network for young Jewish professionals from Israel and Europe to encourage innovation, nurture business cooperation, share knowledge and skills, attract investors and offer access to new markets. Instead of trying to add a Jewish component to the already overwhelming schedule of these young business professionals, the Forum brings a Jewish component to their business reality

For all her social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JConnectForum/
website: https://www.jconnectforum.com/

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Devorah made aliyah in December 2011 with came with my husband and 3 out of her 4 daughters aged 10, 13 and 15. Her 17 year old stayed in South Africa to complete her final year of high school. She made aliyah a year later. It was an incredibly difficult aliyah as her family moved for her 'Zionistic dream'. Teenagers making aliyah was not simple from so many different aspects - social, cultural and of course the language. The first 6 months I was torn between my disbelief that she actually made aliyah and the privilege she felt to be living here, and the pain that her family was feeling. After 6 months of drying tears and trying to settle her family, it hit her one day that she had lost my Wellness practice, that nobody knew her professionally and she would have to start from scratch building up a Reflexology practice again.

Before Devorah made aliyah she ran a busy Reflexology practice from home. The year before she left she started studying Logotherapy which is the teachings of Dr Victor Frankl from his bestseller, 'Man's search for meaning.' She had started incorporating these teachings into my clinic because she felt that people were looking for meaning behind their illnesses and struggles and until then she was not able to help them. LY helps people ask "What now?" instead of "Why me?".

When Devorah knew they were coming to Israel, she told the lecturer, on old Africaner women who was Dr Frankls student, that she was unable to continue with the course because she was going to live in Israel. She said "Marvelous Devorah, I live in Modiin! I converted because of Dr Frankl and now live in Israel and teach a private group Logotherapy from my home. You are welcome to join!" So, soon after she made aliyah she joined the group and continued with the course. This was a lifesaver to Devorah as she made the aliyah transition. It was a huge turning point in her work as she started counseling people with life struggles and challenges. Of course the skills she learnt helped her with her own transition and helped her to help her family as well.

Devorah then went on to do a bereavement counseling course and studied mental imagery for healing and am currently studying Somatic Experience - emotional first aid for trauma.

For all her social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dkwellbeing
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5YDsijkbETm1T70Lc2B2Ag
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devorah-kur-b692a725/

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Efrat Lev was born in Israel and immigrated to Australia at the age of 5. Her parents were Chabad shlichim in Sydney and my father was the Rabbi of the Israeli community there.  When she was 18.5 we moved back to Israel and settled in Efrat. She went to Midreshet Harova followed by Hebrew University where she got my degrees in International Relations and English Literature.  She also married my husband, who she had met in Australia and they have 3 children. 

Efrat had bad scoliosis and asthma growing up and wore a back brace throughout high school. She was very academic and sports was never her thing. She was always picked last for teams in school and always preferred to sit on the side and read a book during Physical Ed classes. 

Efrat's pregnancies were extremely difficult because she suffers from a condition called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), unrelenting vomiting throughout pregnancy.  Her last pregnancy six years ago was the most difficult. She was bed ridden, on IV medication and steroids and lost a lot of weight.  While many women focus on losing their baby weight after giving birth, she only wanted to get stronger. What started as just walking gave way to strength training with 2kg dumbbells and it was literally love at first sight. She was fortunate to have a home gym as her husband is an ironman,  as well as a doctor who has little time to get to a gym. 

In that home gym she taught myself to powerlift with a small gym bar,  a hell of a lot of YouTube tutorials and a real determination in my heart to never be weak again.  When Crossfit opened in Efrat, a good friend told her she must try it out and even though she was still generally clumsy and hadn't trained in a group setting,  she went. Crossfit truly skyrocketed my potential and within months she was lifting weight she never thought possible. 

The owner and head coach casually suggested she go to Wingate to get certified as a health and fitness coach and after 11 years of being a stay at home mum, Efrat embarked on a year of study. Upon receiving my certification,  she went on to get certified as a Crossfit Level 1 trainer and started working at Crossfit Gush. Along the way she also met her powerlifting coach who introduced me to the world of competitive lifting.

Although she trains men, women and children, her passion is to strength train women in all stages of life. There are so many myths and misconceptions regarding this field and it is her absolute passion to break the stereotypes and introduce women to the numerous benefits of strength training.

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Born and raised in Manchester until the age of 18, I did a year in Israel with Bnei Akiva and came back to the UK to go to university in Leeds. I studied Sociology and moved to London for 2 years after I had finished my degree. After working for a Jewish NGO in London I decided I wanted to make aliya, so 13 years ago I took the second flight from the UK with NBN to Israel. I studied at Ulpan and then quickly moved to Tel Aviv. After many jobs, i worked in tourism, as a PA, online gaming and back to tourism I decided I really wanted to study to become a personal trainer. 

The course was 7 months at Tel Aviv University and all in hebrew- which I was not fluent in. I was determined to pass so I worked double hard and translated all the courses in to English so I always knew what was happening in class, I passed and started working at Holmes Place Dizengoff Centre soon after. After a year and half working for minimum pay, I decided to take my profession outside and started working for myself at Toolbox gym. It’s been nearly 4 years of a lot of ups and downs and learning how to work for yourself and becoming a better trainer. I don't know if it was the best decision I made living in Israel alone with no family to support me here, but I care a lot about health and fitness and I really want to make a difference to women and show how they can become strong and look after their bodies. 

Then this time last year I decided, after listening to hours and hours of podcasts that I would like to start my own podcast -  focusing on women who had made aliyah and started businesses or just had a great aliyah story to share. It’s been a major learning curve, I am learning something new everyday and really seeing it grow. I hope I get to interview even more amazing women this year and that I can reach even more people in 2020. 

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pash2
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RebeccapashPersonalTrainer/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pashminafitness/
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Pearl grew up in London and when she got married she moved to Manchester where she brought up her family.  Pearl worked in finance for a while but always wanted to work with wellbeing and the helping professions.   It was around the time approximately 12 years ago when she was studying  psychotherapy that she found  EFT Tapping Therapy or rather EFT Tapping Therapy found her !!  She knew then that was for her and so she made it her business to be the best Practitioner she could be.  

Pearl also worked for nine years Camp Simcha UK which is an organisation that supports families with children with life threatening conditions.  She was the Manchester case worker and offered emotional and practical support to the parents.  

Pearl made aliya with her husband  to Jerusalem in February 2017 and as she had been working so many hours in UK, she didn't quite take in the fact that she had left her comfortable and familiar life in Manchester and was embarking on something so new.  

In her mind she was going to seamlessly continue working and continuing my lifestyle.   

But she am not a person who dives into the unknown and thats what it felt like !!   Pearl walked into Ben Gurion airport and then it hit her and only then what had she done!!!  She was in the deep blue sea and she cant swim.  She actually found it quite hard at the beginning.

What was most familiar to her tho was her work, so that's where she put her energy.  Pearl saw clients privately, ran different tapping groups - for people who made aliya and found it stressful, for people wanting to lose weight, for people who wanted money and abundance.  She works online and in person. and then she found people wanted to be trained in these techniques so she became an accredited trainer just over a year ago so that she can train  others to work professionally. 

Pearl is a workaholic but always has time for her family and in her spare time you can find  her playing cards and games with my grandchildren.

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pearllopian/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pearl.lopian
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWcBgwaDjEChxhtJ_wBvt0w

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Meet Amy, aka @theasianisraeli. 5 years ago, this native Californian decided to become Israeli. Looking back on her life, no one would have guessed it. Coming from a mixed family, she had very limited exposure to Judiasm or the Jewish community. It wasn't until her second year in college that she truly started to explore her Jewish identity. And with the help of an Israeli shaliach, she discovered the love of her life, Israel. It was then that her life path began to point towards the Middle East. She started the Israel Advocacy group on her campus, became the President of her Hillel, and decided she wanted to work in Jewish non-profits. Upon making Aliyah she went to Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem, quickly launching her career in marketing for Jewish nonprofits. Although she loved the spirituality and and meaning of Jerusalem, after 3.5 years she could no longer ignore the calling of the sea. She moved to Tel Aviv where she began working in hitech as a content manager.

As most love stories, Amy & Israel have a complicated relationship. You see, being both a paternal Jew, and and Asian-American in Israel, on top of being a lone-olah, comes with many challenges. Being a blogger from age 16 and an avid social media user, Amy decided to share it all by launching her Instagram account, @theasianisraeli. From Sabich wars to election breakdowns, check out her Instagram account for olim struggles, mixed-girl perspectives, and at minumum, a good laugh. Bonus: she has a cute puppy named Mindy.

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Website: https://www.amyalbertson.com/corona-resources
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theasianisraeli/
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Michal Berman made alliyah from NY after finishing college, 8 years ago. She came to join the army as a lone soldier through garin tzabar, a program that lets you live with other lone soldiers. This was one of the most challenging and incredible decisions I made.
    Following my two years service as a shooting instructor, Michal started her graduate program in art therapy in a means to help soldiers through art therapy. It was important for me to offer other types of therapies for people who might have a difficult time opening up.
    After graduating she moved to Tel Aviv and joined forces with Natasha Miller Gutman and opened up a new location of Tel Aviv Art Studio. A studio that offers art classes for adults, children and teens, paint nights, birthday parties, figure drawing and art therapy.  Michal is proud to not only be a business owner, and doing something she loves but following her dreams and offering art therapy to soldiers.

    This process has been so hard and incredible. It shaped who she is and just makes her what to connect with others and show them that they can do anything.

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Website: https://www.telavivartstudio.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/telavivartstudio/
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There are moments that occur in life that can change everything that follows. For a mother to hear that something is developmentally different about the children; that is one of those moments. Deborah French lived through this moment twice by the time she was 26 years old. During the birth of her second child, she discovered that her baby was born with Down’s syndrome. And then when her first child hit two years old, she was told he was on the autistic spectrum. Raising one child with special needs is a task fraught with challenge and takes a special parent.

After making Aliyah in 2007 with her family, now a mother of five children, Deborah and her husband established the Mazal L’Chayim program in schools in the Sharon region. It’s target to educate mainstream children about children with special needs; breaking down social barriers that exist, paving the way for acceptance and ultimately inclusion.

As a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and published author by profession, Deborah incorporates the powerful tools of CBT into her now Nationally Award winning program to bring about meaningful change in perspective and a chance for introspection for every pupil she has taught. Deborah has educated over 1300 students, since opening in 2013.

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Website: www.deborahfrench.com
Email: info@deborah-French.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeborahFrenchCBT/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-frenchcbt/

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Helena made Aaliyah in January 2019 from London and went straight to Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem. She moved to Tel Aviv in June and continued my freelance content writing business, but found that there simply weren’t many fixed networking events that offered her a space to grow my business and network with likeminded individuals.

Which is why English Speaking Networking was formed – to offer a space for business owners and professionals looking to learn, grow and develop through regular networking. With her launch only in September we have close to ten members in Tel Aviv and will be opening a branch in Ramat Beit Shemesh in January.

For all her social media:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Englishspeakingnetworking/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/englishspeakingnetworking/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/helenambakercopywriter_/

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Pamela Becker came to Israel from New York in 1994 with the Arad Arts Project artist residency program. Today, she juggles a high-tech career with non-profit management and writing fiction.   

Armed with an MBA from Tel Aviv University, Pamela has enjoyed a long career as a marketing executive and consultant for some of Israel's leading technology companies including ironSource, SafeCharge, and Payoneer. 

In 2008, widowed with three small children, Pamela co-founded and remains the active chairperson of the Israeli charity Jeremy's Circle. The charity now supports thousands of Israeli children coping with cancer treatment or cancer loss in their immediate families. 

Pamela remarried and adopted her husband’s sons, who had lost their mother to cancer. She lives with her husband and their five teenagers in Tel Aviv.

Memoirs of a False Messiah is Pamela Becker's debut novel, about a young woman who becomes a hero for many and a false prophet to others. It is available in ebook, paperback and audio versions on Amazon and Audible.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pamela-Becker-Author-107801850581933/

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