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babylonsister

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69. I think they were called birth control glasses...

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #47)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 07:10 PM

Mar 2012

I'm serious! My ex was in the CG, wore them, and that's what he called them.

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