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closeupready

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5. I did try one, but he got more into sports-related discussions, and I'm so not into sports.

Reply to djean111 (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 29, 2016, 06:03 PM

Jan 2016

So the humor didn't hit me right, but the columns from the 94-95 period which he wrote for the Miami Herald and were syndicated to newspapers everywhere ... absolutely hysterical stuff, almost every single one.

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