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Step 2: Once that’s paid off, roll the old $350 into the next smallest debt: the $4,500 credit card. You’d pay $120 + $350 = $470 monthly on that card until it’s gone.

Within a week, I’d raised $6,000. Within a month, $10,000. The mechanics were almost embarrassingly simple: I would call a school, verify their lunch debt amount, write a check, drop it off, repeat.

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