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SunSeeker

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37. Most people are that way.

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #34)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 09:47 PM

Feb 2014

That's why it's called courage in a bottle.

You, I'd like drinking with. Angry racists, not so much.

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