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Mississippi

dipsydoodle

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1. That's awful.

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Tue Apr 23, 2013, 04:42 AM

Apr 2013

Fortunately now more attention is paid not only to fire escapes but keeping them clear too. The music would've been what my friends and I dance to now and we would now all sympathise just as we would've then had we been around.

One of the tracks mentioned in the Wiki link :

I must've danced to that tracks dozens of times but didn't understand it referred to a real event.

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That's awful. dipsydoodle Apr 2013 #1