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mike_c

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13. good point....

Reply to JackRiddler (Reply #10)

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 07:04 PM

Feb 2012

I'm out on the left coast, and in a rural area at that. I suspect the picture I see is very different than what you experience in the urban east.

Solidarity!

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