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magical thyme

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13. I was at work

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 12:00 PM

Jan 2015

it was my 1st year or so as an employee at DEC. I was watching it on a tiny teevee with one of my bosses in his office.

One of those times I guess that you always remember exactly where you were; what you were doing.

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