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OldBaldy1701E

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12. How completely unAmerican!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 06:56 PM

Dec 27

To suggest that anyone live in something that is not worthy of envy is to say that we are not America! We have to d**kwave! We have to have a house bigger than the last one! Onward and Upward! Screw anything that does not say, "MY C**K IS THE BIGGEST!!"

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