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Demeter

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58. That's funny!

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 02:17 PM

Jan 2014

Because I get a whacky idea, and then start Googling....

My mind is filled higglety-piggelty worse than my house with all sorts of stuff that might come in handy some day....

And then I have a truly bizarre circle of friends who feed the collecting imperative...and the whacky ideas.

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