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Old 01-30-2007, 06:23 PM   #3401
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Old 01-30-2007, 06:34 PM   #3402
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Old 01-31-2007, 11:20 PM   #3403
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Old 02-01-2007, 07:37 AM   #3404
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Old 02-01-2007, 10:18 AM   #3405
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Old 02-01-2007, 09:00 PM   #3406
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would end in blushing
or in a too shy fluster
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Old 02-01-2007, 09:47 PM   #3407
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Old 02-02-2007, 01:05 AM   #3408
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Kate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate complimentsKate Thornton is so great that we've run out of appropriate compliments
for me and you
there is just enough dinner
we have all we need
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Old 02-02-2007, 01:35 AM   #3409
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Old 02-02-2007, 05:05 PM   #3410
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Old 02-02-2007, 07:53 PM   #3411
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Kiss his sunburnt lips
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Old 02-02-2007, 07:57 PM   #3412
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Miracle aloe
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softly I'll forget
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Old 02-02-2007, 08:32 PM   #3413
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softly I'll forget
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Old 02-02-2007, 09:54 PM   #3414
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Let drink be my guide
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Old 02-02-2007, 10:21 PM   #3415
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or to its horrors
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Old 02-02-2007, 11:25 PM   #3416
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Old 02-02-2007, 11:56 PM   #3417
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the perfect storm hit
did we know it was coming?
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Old 02-03-2007, 12:02 AM   #3418
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everything gone,
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Old 02-03-2007, 01:35 AM   #3419
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all there is, is you
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Old 02-03-2007, 02:53 AM   #3420
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tommorrow on hold
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heartlessly cold love,
beating, fracturing the ice
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