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Tansy_Gold

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24. Say what?

Wed Jan 11, 2012, 01:37 AM

Jan 2012

Is this like that old joke where the one guy goes to the other and says, "Hey, lend me $20. But only give me $10 of it. That way you'll owe me $10 and I'll owe you $10 and we'll be even!"?

TG, who just learned another smiley

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