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Friday, May 18, 2012
Click for an old Dad
Click? My 83-year-old father has become a writer! Help him by clicking this link to his article?
http://yhoo.it/JdaPZk
Alicia
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Laura K. Curtis
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That's quite an amazing story!
May 18, 2012 at 8:41 PM
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That's quite an amazing story!
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