Boys and thier toys a biological connection


	Boys and thier toys a biological connection

Brimstone

4-8-2008 9:05 AM

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Brimstone says:

This is cool; I thought that I liked playing with cars because I just liked playing with cars, and not because a monkey told me to.

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