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Dec. 12 -- The number of personal bankruptcies filed is up 98 percent in the last year and is almost double the rate it was 10 years ago.

Have you recently filed for personal bankruptcy? If so, why? Do you fear you are on the brink of having to file? Why? What are you doing to prevent from having to file?

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