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Old 07-30-2008, 01:30 AM   #2376
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Old 07-30-2008, 05:48 PM   #2379
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Old 07-30-2008, 06:54 PM   #2381
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Relation, though poor, unwashed, and destitute could not, in all conscience be turned away, because she was, after all, his mother, so he decided finally to welcome her into his heart and into his home and allow her to sleep in the dog's quarters.
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Old 07-30-2008, 08:27 PM   #2382
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Old 07-30-2008, 08:31 PM   #2383
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Old 07-30-2008, 09:18 PM   #2384
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Jarring them snakes in brine was no easy chore for Edna, but it'd all be worth it in a coupla' months when she could sit down to a nice plate of pickled rattlers.
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Nine little toes had my darling Clementine--and I always blamed them demmed herrings.
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