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	Creating the rift

denialll

11-5-2009 9:51 AM

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11-5-2009 1:05 PM

chestnut501

These are by far the best pictures I've seen of this. Thanks denislll

11-5-2009 1:07 PM

chestnut501

oops....I hit the "s" instead of the "a" in your name, they're right next to each other, see?

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