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Atlanta siblings surprise mom by paying off her mortgage | Afro

By NNPA (NNPA Newswire) — June Hassan, a mother from Atlanta, Georgia, says she was pleasantly surprised when her children decided to help her pay off her house. It started out as a joke. June had always made fun of telling her son and daughters to pay off her house someday. But her children (and […]

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