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5. If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people.

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 10:27 PM

Feb 2014

They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

What an amazing life and an pretty amazing man.

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It was. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #6

"Young wolves, show us your teeth." John Steinbeck Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2014 #4

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #5

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A distant cousin of mine. hunter Feb 2014 #8

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Can't argue with that. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #16

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