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Before Jonathan Allain agreed to sit down with me, he did what any self-respecting computer-literate skeptic would do.

 He Googled me.

 Who could blame him? Out of the blue, I contacted him after seeing a bunch of yellow ribbons tied around the trees in his front yard, a star flag in his window, and a big sign on the side of his Lumberton house that read "Mommy's Over There." Which left me wondering: Who's taking care of the kids with Mommy "over there"?

 Turns out that "over there" is Iraq and that Jonathan, 31, a former Air Force pilot, is the parent in command stateside in New Jersey.

 Mommy is Capt. Michel (pronounced Michelle) Allain, also 31, who's completing her final three months of a six-month deployment - her second deployment of the war. The civil engineer for ...

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