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61. I haven't heard it either.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Reply #48)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 11:30 PM

Dec 2015

I hope I don't. Reading it was bad enough.

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My ban list KentuckyWoman Dec 2015 #7

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