It was frustrating and demoralizing, a constant source of stress and strain. So since there was nothing we could do, we did nothing. Until we could reach settlement agreements for both the federal and state taxes, we were going to have to either go on with our lives or not. Those were our choices as I saw them. We could spend the rest of our lives being miserable—and still not free of the tax burden—or we could try to create the best lives we could under the circumstances while still hoping to settle our debts. In order to do that, I needed to do something new, something real, something that
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