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dogknob

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26. When I called my grandmother from Richmond, VA...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Feb 2, 2012, 03:45 AM

Feb 2012

... a place I had never been, or planned to go to, but we had a gig there...

... I told her where in town I was and she knew the place. She asked me to go across the street and kiss the statue of Robert E. Lee for her.

As far as she knows, I did.

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