Because it involved storing the stuff somewhere in your house or garage until you got around to making a trip down to a local recycling facility, where they paid you maybe pennies on the pound for whatever your household had accumulated, or maybe they paid you nothing but good feelings.

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Although my visit to Butner Federal Correctional Facility to visit inmate Albert Parish was pushed back until mid-May, all was not lost on my trip to North Carolina.

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