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Think. Again.

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16. I suspect the instigators...

Reply to yardwork (Reply #14)

Thu May 2, 2024, 03:30 PM

May 2024

...would like something like that to happen, we probably shouldn't give them any ideas.

Let them just keep yelling at people and riling up the masses, it's safer that way.

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My husband's is named for his uncle who was an RAF pilot who died defending the UK. Demsrule86 May 2024 #36

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