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Money an Obvious Evil

We have decided that we need to get our passports. With my parents living so close to the border and the fact that I'm going to be there for 2 weeks I just might end up running across the line. But WHY does it have to cost so much to get them. First of all I'm going to have to get Felicity's birth certificate.... which costs money, and then it's going to cost $270 total to get our whole family outfitted with passports. Isn't that ridiculous?? Why does the government have to charge an outlandish price for a little booklet with my picture in it?

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  1. JanineFebruary 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM

    Dont forget the costs for the silly little pictures themselves! We did that a year an a half ago, ugh.

    On the plus side, they last a while. And its nice to know we can just run off to Hawaii or Europe on a whim.

    Ha.
    Janine

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