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Plenty of time to work....

Posted By: Hayseed on 2007-01-25
In Reply to: Hayseed - SODIEPOP

Subject: Plenty of time to work....

It's sleep that seems to be hard to come by!  If I didn't have my critters, I'd be a total nut job...I mean worse than I am already! 


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