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CORPORATE ADOPTIONS, GOLDEN FUTURES

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

CORPORATE ADOPTIONS, GOLDEN FUTURES

• BY LORRAINE AHEARN Staff Writer
• Aug 6, 2002
• Aug 6, 2002
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In a big marble building somewhere in Dallas, Texas, lies the last vestige of Pet Milk's so-called ``adoption' of four little girls from Rockingham County.

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