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Thank you for replying!! whew. so happy you are finally talking. look. I took a long time out of my day, to write you a bunch of advice here. Please stop trying to "fix" the article and read what I have written here to get better grounded in what
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Hi Jytdog, I'm here because Fred hails from the
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