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Child Abuse Survivor Now in Your Language

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Thanks to a Google translate widget added to the sidebar, you can choose to read this blog, and the News and Reviews site, in your own language.

I can’t make any promises for how accurate the Google Translate is, but hopefully it helps some folks be able to read and share the posts!

I’ve also added a couple of other things to the sidebar, sharing photos from the Instagram feed as well as a feed of recently shared links. Always trying to provide visitors with good information, and reward them for coming to the page instead of relying on social media to notice when we’ve shared something!

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