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"I got this incredibly stupid idea Saturday to try and put up our above-ground pool all by myself. After all, I&amp;#039;d watched my neighbor carefully last year, and I was sure I could remember how. It would probably go a bit slower on the assembly, but I was confident I could handle this. Yeah, yeah....sometimes I get a bit too sure of myself. I was about twenty minutes into the project, realizing what an idiot I was, when I saw a couple of my neighbors walking across their back lawn and into mine. They cheerfully informed me that they were there to help, and between the three of us, the pool was up and filling within an hour. It would have taken me five times as long to do that all myself, and I couldn&amp;#039;t thank them enough. Then the next door neighbors extended an invitation to their backyard barbeque, and I got to cook for fun - something I dearly miss doing. We ate, we drank, we laughed - a lot - and I got to catch up with other neighborhood moms that I rarely get to see since I work full time. Monday, I started the first load of my endless pile of laundry, and my washing machine sprouted an enormous leak and flooded the laundry room floor. Within an hour or so, I had a neighbor who fixed the leak and another who offered me her older-but-still-working washing machine because she just got a new one.  I know I&amp;#039;ve crowed about it before, but honestly, how lucky am I to have these people living around me? They&amp;#039;ve all got my back and they watch out for my kids and I am beyond blessed. Peter thought it was foolish for me to stay in the house, I know. And it&amp;#039;s not easy paying this mortgage, but the trading these neighbors is out of the question.  It takes a village to keep a single mom afloat sometimes. Do you have a lot of help from your neighbors? I really couldn&amp;#039;t have gotten by like I have without them! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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