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treestar

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10. Yeah that cradle to grave care!

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 03:31 PM

Jun 2013

Forgetting the part where you could be sold and separated from your family!

Couldn't vote, couldn't leave if you wanted to. Neoconfederate jackwagons do like to overlook that point.

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