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Cosmocat

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36. Careful now

Reply to Ferretherder (Reply #34)

Thu Jul 10, 2014, 07:41 AM

Jul 2014

we can't have simple common sense interjected into it.

This America, and EVERYONE can lift themselves up by their bootstrap and be a millionare.

And, fuck those who don't.

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