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county worker
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Tue May-03-11 02:32 PM Original message |
Is anyone else like me? 9/11 was not an earth shattering event in my life |
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trud
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Tue May-03-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. 9/11 was payback |
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Deep13
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Tue May-03-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. The stated reasons for 9/11 were all religious... |
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JoePhilly
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Tue May-03-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. No they weren't ... and your added text demonstrates that. |
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Deep13
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Tue May-03-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. "Religion is used only to help motivate those who will be sent to die." |
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JoePhilly
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Tue May-03-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
53. Wrong. |
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Ikonoklast
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Wed May-04-11 04:31 AM Response to Reply #53 |
72. Bin Laden would kill the entire House of Saud if he could. |
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Puregonzo1188
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Thu May-05-11 01:46 PM Response to Reply #10 |
80. Um...no they weren't al-Qaeda, while it wanted an Islamic Caliphate, had very specific political |
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krabigirl
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Tue May-03-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
43. Blowback. And I agree with your statement. Nt |
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Dennis Donovan
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Tue May-03-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. Were you in NYC , DC or SE PA at the time? |
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stuntcat
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Tue May-03-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. I heard a boom in Arlington |
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Vinee
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Tue May-03-11 03:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
45. no, but I was in the infantry at the time so it turned out to be a pretty significant even |
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Deep13
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Tue May-03-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. I was a bit surprised by 9/11. |
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MineralMan
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Tue May-03-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm sure there are others who feel the same as you. |
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Tue May-03-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
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malaise
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Tue May-03-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. My husband said America would never be the same again |
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Ron Green
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Tue May-03-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yes, but the way America will never be the same is not the way the corporate media |
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H2O Man
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Thu May-05-11 01:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
81. I agree. |
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dipsydoodle
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Tue May-03-11 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
7. I was disappointed |
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mmonk
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Tue May-03-11 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
9. It was the beginning of the end of any innocence I had left in this aging body. |
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hakko936
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Tue May-03-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
11. no, i am not like you |
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kiranon
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Tue May-03-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. Neither am I. 9/11 was a life changing event for me. n/t |
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anneboleyn
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Tue May-03-11 04:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
57. My brother's office building was directly across from WTC 1. So yes it was a big deal. |
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Raine
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Tue May-03-11 05:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
66. Me too nt |
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DefenseLawyer
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Tue May-03-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
12. 9/11 was a pretty big event to me at the time |
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Ineeda
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Tue May-03-11 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
13. It did have an impact on me. |
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quinnox
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Tue May-03-11 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. 9/11 was a big deal to me, but the Osama bin Laden killing was not |
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Connie_Corleone
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Tue May-03-11 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
15. Well it was for me. |
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sufrommich
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Tue May-03-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
16. You didn't get emotional on 9/11? nt |
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Armstead
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Tue May-03-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
17. 9-11 was earth shattering for everyone, whether consciously or not |
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CJCRANE
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Tue May-03-11 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
18. There are are probably a lot more people like you |
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Ezlivin
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Thu May-05-11 01:01 PM Response to Reply #18 |
76. You're edging toward the Dungeon with that kind of banter |
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catbyte
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Tue May-03-11 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
20. I still get the heebie jeebies when I think of slamming into the towers |
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a la izquierda
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Tue May-03-11 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
21. I grew up in NJ... |
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uppityperson
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Thu May-05-11 12:51 PM Response to Reply #21 |
75. I flew into Newark a couple yrs back, sitting by a nice French woman |
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Sonoman
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Tue May-03-11 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. For me, it was no big deal until those buildings collapsed in neat piles. |
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Glorfindel
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Tue May-03-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
23. It was for me...some of the people I love best live in New York City |
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Lone_Star_Dem
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Tue May-03-11 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
25. Whether we realized it or not at the time, it shattered our lives as we knew them. |
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Tue May-03-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Yup. |
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Lone_Star_Dem
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Tue May-03-11 03:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. An excellent point |
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Armstead
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Tue May-03-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #26 |
41. Interesting...does explain differences in generational views |
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Dawson Leery
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Tue May-03-11 03:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. What was considered "normal" changed. |
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Lone_Star_Dem
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Tue May-03-11 03:32 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. That it did. |
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Dawson Leery
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Tue May-03-11 03:37 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. The Xenophobia of "old" Europe re-emerged. |
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subterranean
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Tue May-03-11 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. I was shocked when 9/11 happened |
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JI7
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Tue May-03-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
28. i thought it was one of the worst things to happen in my life |
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Iggo
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Tue May-03-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
29. 9/11 was huge. |
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Shiver
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Tue May-03-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
30. My stomach lurches everytime I see the pictures of the people who jumped. |
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anneboleyn
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Tue May-03-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #30 |
58. Me too. I am actually dreading the film version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
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hlthe2b
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Tue May-03-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
31. May I ask (broadly) how old you are? |
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hfojvt
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Thu May-05-11 01:41 PM Response to Reply #31 |
78. let me introduce myself |
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dkf
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Tue May-03-11 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. I was worried about sleeper cells and what they might try to do. |
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jp11
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Tue May-03-11 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'm sure they are but I have to ask what then would you consider an earth shattering event |
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cbdo2007
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Tue May-03-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
36. The recent Japan earthquake and nuclear disaster were not earth shattering events in my life... |
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Art_from_Ark
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Wed May-04-11 05:15 AM Response to Reply #36 |
73. The Japan disasters were earth-shattering events in my life |
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Me.
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Tue May-03-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
37. As A NYer, In The City At The Time |
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closeupready
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Tue May-03-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
38. I was working in Manhattan that day, and the weeks and months surrounding the date were surreal. |
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krabigirl
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Tue May-03-11 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
44. The former was, but not the latter. Nt |
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al_liberal
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Tue May-03-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
46. I was out of the country on business. |
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onenote
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Tue May-03-11 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
48. pretty much anyone with an ounce of empathy felt something emotional on 9/11 |
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Uncle Joe
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Tue May-03-11 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
49. What were you doing on 9/11 when you first heard the news? |
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Brickbat
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Tue May-03-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
50. I feel the same way. My own microcosm -- how my family and I relate to each other, how I go about |
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Igel
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Tue May-03-11 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
51. Earth-shattering? No. |
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Awsi Dooger
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Tue May-03-11 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
52. I slept through the 9/11 coverage |
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smirkymonkey
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Tue May-03-11 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
54. I live here and I watched the towers go down from downtown |
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Marrah_G
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Tue May-03-11 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
55. I think its normal if you live that far away and really had no connection there. |
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Lucian
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Tue May-03-11 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
56. Surprised about 9/11? Yes. Earth shattering? No. |
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NYC Liberal
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Tue May-03-11 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
59. Not me. I was living in Manhattan that day (still am)... |
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WilliamPitt
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Tue May-03-11 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
60. I am not at all like you. |
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Dappleganger
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Tue May-03-11 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
61. If what happened to your countrymen on 9/11 didn't move you... |
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DFab420
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Tue May-03-11 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
62. I don't even know what to say to you. |
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RagAss
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Tue May-03-11 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
63. I distinctly recall every Repug I knew "shitting their pants" scared that day. |
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Raine
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Tue May-03-11 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
64. Wow, it's something I'll never forget the horror of |
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Safetykitten
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Tue May-03-11 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
65. 9/11...nothing? Really? Wow. |
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Patriot 76
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Tue May-03-11 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
67. Good for you, but please have some fucking respect! |
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Ohio Joe
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Tue May-03-11 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
68. No |
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MoonRiver
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Wed May-04-11 03:36 AM Response to Original message |
69. OMG, were you an infant? |
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ipaint
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Wed May-04-11 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
70. I was surprised and saddened but the devastation and death we left in the |
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cali
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Wed May-04-11 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
71. no. although the killing of bin-Laden is not a big deal to me. 9/11 was. |
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Dawson Leery
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Thu May-05-11 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
74. kick |
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frogmarch
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Thu May-05-11 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
77. 911 was earth shattering for me |
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Codeine
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Thu May-05-11 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
79. Damn, you're just way too bad-ass, dude. |
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