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Maraya1969

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9. This conservative bullshit has cost me one dear friend. She got involved in Fox news

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Sun Jan 5, 2014, 01:23 PM

Jan 2014

and loved Glen Beck..........and anyway we just stopped talking because I could not stand the things she would send me in emails and even if I went through point by point explaining how what she was sending me could not be true she kept sending me the same stuff.

We are at odds with each other. The last thing she sent me actually said that whoever was writing it did not care if it was true or not. They wanted to say it and believe it.

She is a lost soul

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