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                            <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Dear Friends,</strong></span> 
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                               <span class="text_exposed_show" style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">Be part of the LGBTQ community's response to Hurricane Harvey by making a donation to Rainbow World Fund's <a style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);text-decoration:underline;" rel="nofollow" track="on" shape="rect" href="https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1210623" linktype="1" target="_blank">U.S. Disaster Aid Fund.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>&nbsp;</span>
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                               <span class="text_exposed_show" style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">Hurricane Harvey has left a path of devastation throughout much of southeast Texas. The severe rains have displaced thousands from their homes.</span>&nbsp;</span>
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                                            <b>Hurricane Harvey</b> is an active tropical cyclone that is causing catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas.
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                                           <span class="text_exposed_show" style="color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Rainbow World Fund has worked with Feeding America since 2004</strong> when RWF purchased 1 million pounds of food aid to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina - all on behalf of the LGBTQ community! &nbsp;</span>
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