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Middle Class Photo Project

John Ketchum, Saginaw, Mich

Marketplace Contributor May 31, 2012

This represents the middle class because the cornerstone of achieving that status is education.  Education Is stressed among middle class families, so whenever a son, daughter, grandson graduates from college IT’S HUGE!

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