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To Celebrate The End Of Her Mortgage, She Burned It

February 15, 2017 4:23 PM |Updated: August 14, 2020 12:50 AM

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Grant Blankenship

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Lillie Ward burns her mortgage in a ceremony at Macon Area Habitat for Humanity recently. / GPB

To Celebrate The End Of Her Mortgage She Burned It

How will you celebrate when you pay off your house? After 20 years in her home purchased with the help of Macon Area Habitat for Humanity, Lillie Ward burned her mortgage.

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Grant Blankenship is an editor and reporter for GPB based in Macon. In the spirit of the old photojournalism dictum "f8 and be there," he believes the best stories start with field trips.

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