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Birthdays on a budget

My husband Shannon’s birthday is in a few weeks, and my grand plans of gifting him a motorbike track day have been thwarted by our dog Buddy’s $1400 surgery.

Buddy is recovering well, but we feel like we’ve been mugged. We’ll be paying off that bill for a while

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