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pacalo

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45. I am SOOOO with you.

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 11:53 PM

Dec 2011

Their rise to success, for the most part, reminds me of the "kick their ass, take their gas" hysteria after 9/11. I was only in the 7th grade & their music didn't appeal to me, but how I tried to like them because everyone else seemed to. It wasn't until the 70's that I began liking their music.

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