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HassleCat

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3. A compromise?

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:41 PM

Jun 2015

If Chumley lived 170 years ago, he might think it was a compromise if plantation owners agreed to sell misbehaving slaves, instead of killing them outright. What a nice man!

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