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      <title>Nobody Would Talk About the Money</title>
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&lt;p&gt;I paid a college consultant good money to help our family, and one afternoon I asked her the only question I actually cared about.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:05:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>michael@collegefundingcounselor.com (Michael Korch)</author>
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