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Miles Archer

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9. The owners had to swallow this one

Reply to tazkcmo (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 21, 2013, 06:59 PM

Nov 2013

It is literally a mom & pop, husband and wife owned place. They absorbed the loss and said "We don't understand why she would do this to us." I tried to reason with her, she pretty much toldme to get bent, and the owner shook my hand and thanked me for trying.

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