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CrispyQ

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27. Hate radio changed my mom.

Reply to ginnyinWI (Reply #6)

Sun Oct 28, 2018, 01:22 PM

Oct 2018

She was a Kennedy democrat. Then she had some bad times & as she was getting back on track, she got a job where they listened to Limbaugh every day. In 18 months she was a different person. It was boggling. She passed in '06 & I often wonder if our relationship would have survived Obama & the tea party.

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