The gist of the story is that Jill Kelley, a social planner in Tampa started getting approximately 10 menacing emails from an anonymous harasser.

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John Allen, who has been nominated to be the new NATO supreme allied commander for Europe, had accumulated a staggering 20, 000-30, 000 pages of documents, most of them emails with Jill Kelley, a social planner who organized events at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.

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Barbara Collins, a retired conference planner living in Woodside, was doing extra work to supplement her Social Security.

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When financial planner Rick Gornto devised the Alternate Plan in 1981, he wanted it to be a complete substitute for Social Security.

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