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elleng

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14. As you're in Asia, you've certainly been to places many of us think 'exotic!'

Reply to davidpdx (Reply #12)

Sun Jun 16, 2013, 08:12 PM

Jun 2013

Where are you? Tell us about it? I love to travel too. Dad started us doing so.

I've been to Europe, and a day trip to Tangier, in Morocco, from Spain, once, but that's my extent of 'exotic.'

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