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I am fortunate to have a job with great benefits. But even in that scenario, I had to "scrimp and save" sick days and vacation time to be able to take off the 3 months legally allotted me to stay home with my youngest child. An even more challenging proposition seeing that I have a daughter with a medical condition requring lots of medical appointments, which equals more missed work.

I do support Paid Leave and am hosting an Open House to inform others of the issue today (thursday) at the Gresham Library at 4:30; sponsered by Parents for Paid Leave.

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