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bearsfootball516

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2. I can already see this playing out in the shacks of rural Mississippi

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 09:45 PM

Oct 2017

"Dad, you have to sign this permission slip so I can read "To kill a Mockingbird"

"What? I've hears all sorts of junk bout that devil book, whites and blacks being friends. You aint reading a word of it."

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