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THE PLEDGE

If you are brave enough to share your story of domestic violence,

we the following pledge to hear and honor what you have to say.

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The Dayton Time

Not Too Sticky

Gus and Lulu

A Place of Comfort

Vivid

Broken Won

Thursday Drive

Scientific Nature of the Whammy

Wise Young Mommy

Bluff Area Daily

Among Mad People

Carol’s Corner

Nothing Witty

Mommycosm

Moms Who Save

Scream Quietly

Just My Life

Cinnamon and Honey

Overflowing Brain

Petunia in Paradise

You Can’t Diaper Their Faces

Quin Browne

Things I’m Grateful For

Callapipper Tree

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Eva Gale

All Things Angela

Charming & Delightful

Walking with Scissors

Tabbikat’s Thoughts

Trees and Flowers and Birds!

Being Chronically Ill is a Pill

Sarcastic Mom

This D*mn House

Slow Down, Gym Shoe!

The Gratton Grapevine

Miscellaneous Mum

Random Wonder

Reading Rumpus

Lawn Tea

Ahead of the Wave

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Motherbumper

Be Gay About It

A Mother’s Angst

A Parent in Silver Spring

Mom on the Rise

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Playa Minded

Perhaps We Learn

Blue-Eyed Vixen

Tapdancing on the Edge of Reason

This Blessed Mess

Bitchin’ Wives Club

Jodifur

Latina Legal

Mommy’s Martini

Miss Keeley

It’s a Schmitty Life

From the Whispers of Her Soul

Carma Sez

The Sassy Mom Shoppe

The Classy Closet

Mom of Faith

Mom of 2 Boys, Wife of 1

In the Treetop

Barking Mad!

Chains of Yesterday

Stacy’s Random Thoughts

Shout Daily

One! Singular Sensation!

J-Wag

The Cheek of God

This Woman’s Beautiful Life

Fancy Feet

Nummies 911

Passionate Fiction

The Muse Asylum

Fresh Confessions of a Screwed Up Texan

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Miss Merrittocracy

Whatever! I’m Just Sayin’….

Aunt Pam’s Closet

Charming Bitch

Our Own Oasis

Wife and Mommy

Somewhat Voluble

How I See the World

Coast Rat

Mommy’s Joy

Chasing Wentworth Miller

Here’s What I Don’t Get

The Big Piece of Cake

My Bottle’s Up

This Could Get Ugly

Expressive Silence

In Three Words

Were Those Wrinkles There Yesterday?

Buzz on it

The Atomic Mom

Embellished Truth

Now That You’re On Fire

On the Road to Queendom

Another Suburban Mom

Adventures of a Somewhat Crunchy Mama

Reflecting

On the Side

Mommy Geekology 2.0

Perfect Insanity

Being Just Me

In-laws With Money

For the Love of Twinkies

A Chase After Wind

Meeting the Madwoman

I Continue to Survive

Magneto Bold Too

Unfiltered Insanity

Diapers and Dragons

Forever Femme

Polka Dots are Pretty

Telling it Like it Is

CraftyGAgal Creations

Southern Handmade Gifts

Sea Change

Might be a Lost Cause?

Learn. Love. Live.

…After Silence…

Samtagious!

Amber Page Writes

Back Again and Gone

Mama Kiss

Boy Crazy [Finding Clarity in the Chaos]

Treating Trauma in Chicago

Mind Body Mama

Boarding in Bedlam

A Little Left of Lost

Mocha Dad

In Jennifer’s Head

Element 22

Beautiful Dreamer

World According to Lisa

Chibi Jeebs & The Neurotic Struggle

Through the Darkness

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