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MuseRider

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54. Agreed!

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 10:56 AM

Mar 2021

His books are such fun to read and being lost in a series of his is just the best.

Idris Elba, my my my, was pretty good in it really. He just did not have much to work with.

Molly Ringwald would not have been my choice either.

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