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Sunday, August 5, 2007 - Page updated at 02:02 AM

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Part-time delivery driver, mom and wife

By Mary Rothschild

Special to The Seattle Times

TOM REESE / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Tara Spates, 39, downshifted to a part-time delivery job with FedEx to have more time for her daughters, Tehya, 5, and Zhane, 8. Her husband sold their dry-cleaning business to work for FedEx for the same reason.

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