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Ms. Toad

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25. Agreed -

Reply to Rorey (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 10, 2020, 01:20 PM

Nov 2020

But I might make the concesssion of remaining silent on matters of politics, without unfriending them.

(I've got similar family members - a few I talk with, but some I stay quiet with for the sake of family dynamics.

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