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awoke_in_2003

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57. from what I hear

Reply to tclambert (Reply #53)

Tue Apr 8, 2014, 08:21 PM

Apr 2014

christian fundamentalism is taking over there, too.

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from what I hear awoke_in_2003 Apr 2014 #57

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