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As holding company for the eight F&M Banks in Virginia and West Virginia, F&M National Corporation is proud to have passed the $1 billion mark in assets. But our pride doesn’t stop there. This year, the brokerage firm of A. G. Edwards in St. Louis listed F&M among America’s strongest financial institutions. And
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