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to stop!" and pointed at the child. "I think what everyone is forgetting, it’s my , my rules,” Neugebauer's said shortly after the incident. This was one of the phrases that made it onto a T-shirt now sold in the diner. “If you don’t want to play by the rules, I’ll happily call
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