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11 months. They have full medical insurance and are to be treated like family members while here, not guests, she said.

“I have found it so rewarding. I keep in touch with all the kids we’ve had and I’ve even gone to visit some of them and some of them have come back to visit us. I’ve think they’ve kept me young.”

McNear said families need to remember that the program works even if the host family doesn’t have kids or their kids are younger than the visiting student.

She tries to place students before school ends for the year in order that the host family and the student will have time to correspond in preparation for their year here. Anyone interested in becoming a host family should contact McNear at 987-8150.

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