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79. Backhanding any child is a bit much but when your Dad was child that

Reply to llmart (Reply #78)

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 11:01 PM

Jan 2013

was the way things were done.

I'll bet you've got lots of stories to tell about your old man.

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