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	Tending The Flock

debbyski

2-22-2009 8:26 AM

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2-22-2009 9:17 PM

tanyamm

When I started reading I thought it was in some far off country maybe in the mountains of South America. But he's in the U.S. . That is horrible.

2-23-2009 2:23 PM

cabanaben

Me too, tanyamm!

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