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I’m not kidding. The rest of the article actually is reasonable, but we get this from a person on the street interview:
“‘We have an au pair from France, and she recently filled up our minivan and gave me a bill for $70,’ said Melanie Janin, a mother of three from Bethesda. ‘I was like, Oh, my God.’?”