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Festivito

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31. The county sheriff doesn't get to run with a ski mask.

Reply to magical thyme (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 04:06 PM

Mar 2013

Sheriff W. Brad Steube
I hope we have some media that might ask him a few questions.
If your mother has ALS would you prefer her in pain? Would you raid her too?

http://www.manateesheriff.com/
http://bradsteube.com/

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