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I f you are looking to improve your skin���s overall health and appearance, come visit our Aesthetician, Nicole Morgan. Services include microdermabrasion, chemical peels, body waxing, eyelash extensions and teeth whitening. Alphamed Aesthetics 1815 Fort Bragg Rd. Fayetteville, NC 28303 910.321.0044 www.AlphamedAesthetics.com ��� 910.221.3301 Military Spouse of the Year Awards Armed Forces Insurance MilitarySpouse Nominations for the Military Spouse of the year 2013 of the Year awards will be open until January. To recommend someone you know for the award, simply go to www.militaryspouse. com/nomination and complete the nomination form. Voting for base winners will take place on January 22. Branch voting will take place on February 5 and national voting will take place on March 5, with the overall winner to be announced on May 9. �� 28 | January/February ��� 2013 a top five finalist for the Army branch. As we were opening Oprah���s favorite presents that day in October, she said that she knew our first instinct would be to share our gifts with others. Though she gave us permission to give away a few presents, particularly those that didn���t easily fit into our lives, she admonished us to keep some for ourselves �����and to let her blessings invigorate us to do even more for our communities. We were all so honored to be there and to receive the presents that the ideas for ways to bless our communities began flowing immediately. In the days that followed we created an online group so that we could continue to trade ideas and help each other see those ideas to fruition. As a result, there are already plans in the works for a military spouse fitness and nutrition program; an organization to donate vacation time to military families and many ideas to increase funding and improve the programs that already exist. The most direct descendant of Oprah���s Favorite Things is a newly launched program called ���30 Bows of Giving���. We saved the 30 bows from our gifts from Oprah and now each of us will surprise a military spouse with a gift adorned with a bow from the show. An accompanying letter will explain that we chose that person because we recognize all that she or he has done for us and our community. The letter will charge each recipient to keep the blessings flowing by sending the bow, the letter and a gift to another military spouse. Through this, we hope that many others will get to experience a bit of what we experienced that day. Of course, many of us have given some of our gifts away. I found very worthy recipients for my electric bicycle, Movado watch and a beautiful bracelet, and there are a few other gifts I���ve set aside to share with others, as well. The same is true for the others who were there with me that day. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we were honored and humbled to have been chosen for the experience ��� and we are motivated to re-gift that blessing to others. CV

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