hahahaha oo Dave the laughing wave, youve made me Theresa the laughing brat
2day!!!!!!! :)   I love waking up & reading funny emails!!!!!!!!
~Theresa

In a message dated 4/30/2002 1:52:40 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
DMSweet@... writes:


> Theresa-
>
> BITE ME?!?!    Such language!!    I am truly shocked!!   LOL!!!!!!!
> (Excuse me while I bust a gut laughing.) :
>
> Tonight's news broadcast:
>
> In the news tonight, a 40 year old man was found dead in his apartment
> after apparently busting a gut in the midst of a laughing fit.. All
> authorities could say was that he died with a smile on his face.
>
> Oh, Theresa, you just kill me...
>
> -Dave "The Laughing Wave"
>
> http://community.webtv.net/DMSweet/TheWave
>
>




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Good one, Jane.
   Mooshu <mooshu@...> wrote: Greetings O Wavy One!  Nice to have
you here.  Yes ,the sheep were very good at stirring us to speech, perhaps we
should now consider pigs as a topic?

Jane

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Pigs!!!  Oh, No!!!

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Pigs!!!  Oh, No!!!

Jane-

Thanks for the welcome, but let's discuss pigs another time!

-O Wavy One

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--- bricklin_forty <jreifens@...> wrote:
......
> You know, when I started this story - I said I
> wanted  to see if
> anybody else on here with AMC could relate to
> something. I don't know
> about you but quite often - I'm still the Center of
> Attention. It's
> just that now - sometimes -that attention is not
> always just finger
> pointing and stares. Sometimes it's applause after
> giving a speech or
> heads turning while cruising in the hot rod. That's
> the kind of
> attention that I like and I'd love to hear from all
> of you out there -
> who get as big a kick as I do - from rising above
> the low expectation
> of others.
>
> Jeff

You know Jeff.....my big "rising above the low
expectations of others" was having my son.  Not even I
thought I could handle a baby by myself.  I knew I
could "do the deed", even though most others assume I
can't but I came to the realization that I was
scared...more scared than I had ever been....more
scared than I had ever allowed myself to realize.  But
I knew I couldn't give him up, especially after the
first time I felt him move inside me.  That moment was
more magical than I ever thought it could be.  Jamison
was born four years ago, my exboyfriend (Jamison's
father) left almost three years ago.  Jamison is my
child, he calls me Mommy, even in front of strangers
:)  It's the most wonderful feeling to know that just
by wheeling around our area I am showing people that
disabled women can have kids, just like "normal"
women.  And more importantly, I have found that I WANT
to be a Mom...always have but never could admit it
until Jamison accidently showed me the way :)

Karen L

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Karen,

Bravo..I am so jealous....My current girlfriend has two sons and I keep
giving her the look to hurry up with mine :-) Honestly, I think disability
or not..the whole thing is a scary concept...Tell you what..my vote is that
in public... your kid is a way cool attention getter...Trade ya for the
beamer.. :-)

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Lassek" <momserene@...>
To: <amc_adults@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Adults AMC] Center of attention!


>
> --- bricklin_forty <jreifens@...> wrote:
> ......
> > You know, when I started this story - I said I
> > wanted  to see if
> > anybody else on here with AMC could relate to
> > something. I don't know
> > about you but quite often - I'm still the Center of
> > Attention. It's
> > just that now - sometimes -that attention is not
> > always just finger
> > pointing and stares. Sometimes it's applause after
> > giving a speech or
> > heads turning while cruising in the hot rod. That's
> > the kind of
> > attention that I like and I'd love to hear from all
> > of you out there -
> > who get as big a kick as I do - from rising above
> > the low expectation
> > of others.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> You know Jeff.....my big "rising above the low
> expectations of others" was having my son.  Not even I
> thought I could handle a baby by myself.  I knew I
> could "do the deed", even though most others assume I
> can't but I came to the realization that I was
> scared...more scared than I had ever been....more
> scared than I had ever allowed myself to realize.  But
> I knew I couldn't give him up, especially after the
> first time I felt him move inside me.  That moment was
> more magical than I ever thought it could be.  Jamison
> was born four years ago, my exboyfriend (Jamison's
> father) left almost three years ago.  Jamison is my
> child, he calls me Mommy, even in front of strangers
> :)  It's the most wonderful feeling to know that just
> by wheeling around our area I am showing people that
> disabled women can have kids, just like "normal"
> women.  And more importantly, I have found that I WANT
> to be a Mom...always have but never could admit it
> until Jamison accidently showed me the way :)
>
> Karen L
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Hi Alina,
Tell you what...if you're serious about independence right now...I'd like to
ask you a few questions about your current living situation that you may or
may not want to post here..My email address is.. jreifens@...

For instance...

You're female and you're 19..Forget disability..that's a combination begging
for "protective parenting". If that's not the case..ok..If it is..that's ok
too..just requires a different approach..Get back to me either at my email
or this post..and we'll forge ahead from there...

Jeff


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Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Adults AMC] Center of attention!


> Hey Jeff,
>
> I live in New Jersey and the closest city near me is Princeton.
>
> Alina
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On that whole Center of Attention thing - here's a quote for any of you radical
AMCers out there - should you ever need it.. It was given to me by one of my
staff during a "discussion" we were having..Lucky for him... I loved it..

"You know..if my hands worked the way I want em to..right now..I'd be giving you
the finger!"    :-)

Jeff


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Hi Alina,

Here are a couple ILCs in New Jersey I found on the web.

Jeff


Alliance for Disabled in Action, Inc.
Deborah Bain
*629 Amboy Avenue
Edison, NJ 08837
*(732) 738-4388
*TTY: (732) 738-4416
*FAX: (732) 738-9644
EMAIL: adacil@...
URL: www.adacil.org

Alliance for Disabled in Action, Inc.
Deborah Bain
65 Jefferson Avenue
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
(908) 289-2551
TTY: (908) 289-2551
*FAX: (908) 289-2591
EMAIL: adacil@...
URL: none

Robert Young
Tri-County ILC (Satellite)
120 North High Street, Suite 12
Millville, NJ  08332
*(856) 327-5177
*TTY:  (856) 327-5328
*FAX:  (856) 327-5153
EMAIL:  RYoung35@...
URL: none

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> I live in New Jersey and the closest city near me is Princeton.
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Hi Jeff,
      I'm very impressed. I don't any grand story like urs, but I do have one. 2
years ago this June I made a statement that in 5 years I want to run or own my
own bussiness. Not sure what type. I've felt I ran a boarding house, bed n
breakfast, counseling service, n taught budgeting ur money to all since I was
17. All for free too. Someone told me recently that I should become a
Motivational Speaker. I said what's that??  Others have told me I'm already
doing it n don't know it. U were motivational for me to keep trying to find
dream.
Thanks
Lorie
   bricklin_forty <jreifens@...> wrote: I wanted to share a story and
see if anybody else can relate. It had
to be about 15 years ago come June that I got my first real job
(despite my voc. rehab counselor's sheltered workshop aspirations for
me)  and went off that summer to a National Council on Independent
Living (NCIL) conference. I got on a small plane in Massena N.Y. and
got off a Jumbo Jet and into a cab in Washington D.C. Next thing you
know I'm at the door of the lobby of the Renissance Ramada Hotel.
Believe me - I was nervous before heading in. See, I'm  a small town
boy and back at the tender age of 25 - I was still pretty freaky
about this thing called disability. Before I go on - know some things
about my youth: Where I came from - people I knew never mentioned my
disability. Thus, I was convinced that if I was to hang out with
other people with disabilities - the people I knew might  begin to
suspect I had one too. Uh Huh! Second; despite the feeble attempts I
made to go through life in that kind of delusional camoflage -
without fail in any public gathering - I got to be the gawked at
center of attention.

O.K., anywise - this I tell you as lead in to my saying I was
terrified of walking through that door. Besides having learned to
eliminate the gawking by avoiding the crowds, I did not know what I
was getting into at that conference. A large part of my worry was
practical. I felt that in a moment, there was a good chance that the
people who took a chance and hired me back home in Massena - would
find out they had hired a guy to represent people with disabilities -
who literally didn't want to associate with them! (Heck - my almost
drank away Bachelor's Degree was in Criminal Justice. I only took the
Independent Living job to eat while waiting out the Civil Service
exams.) Anywise, there I was - about to be found out for the Uncle
Tom that I was - then said the heck with it (after all - I had  lied
my way this far) and went in.  BANG! Walking through those doors
changed my life!

Now don't be thinking I'm about to go on about having some kind of
religious experience here. Quite the contrary. This story is about
how life got better here on earth - when I came to find who I really
was. Picture this - All of a sudden I am in a veritable amphitheatre
that is that Hotel's lobby - looking at the hustle, bustle and
commotion of 500 people experiencing - literally - every kind of
disability you can imagine. People were crusing around in chairs,
pushing gurneys with a stick, using crutches, swinging canes,
following dogs, carrying IV poles - you name it - it was there! It
was....INCREDIBLE!

A couple of things happened to me that day - that really did change
me. The first and most amazing (as it was theretofore beyond my
experience at that point in my life) is that there I was in a huge
crowd of people - and nobody gave me a second look! Hello! The second
thing that happened - and this was definetly related to the first -
was that shortly after arriving in the midst of those 500 long time
activists with every type and severity of disability you can imagine -
I discovered that I was not the chosen one. I was not the one person
on this planet dealing with my level of disability - for whom
disability did not matter. I found this out because - of the 500
people at that conference - 499 of them were doing better than me
simply because they felt better about themselves and about who they
were - than I did!

You know - it's funny but - 15 years later - I'm the long timer now.
And I'm happy to be able to report that as of last week I got over
worrying I'd be found out about my job.  (twenty minutes into that
conference I got over the disability association thing - since then
it's been my sheer incompetence I worry about :-) ) Anywise, now I
get to watch the new people come in to the Independent Living
Movement, knowing most are scared to death. I can't help but laugh
when I talk to some of them, particularly when they say they are
unsure they're in the right place. As far as I'm concerned - if you
want equality in this Country and have a disability or have a
personal stake in it  - be part of the Movement. Otherwise....
well...I'm biased..Another time...

You know, when I started this story - I said I wanted  to see if
anybody else on here with AMC could relate to something. I don't know
about you but quite often - I'm still the Center of Attention. It's
just that now - sometimes -that attention is not always just finger
pointing and stares. Sometimes it's applause after giving a speech or
heads turning while cruising in the hot rod. That's the kind of
attention that I like and I'd love to hear from all of you out there -
who get as big a kick as I do - from rising above the low expectation
of others.

Jeff





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check out the new link in the bookmarks. it is disabledsexuality in
yahoo groups.


Don "bentonpanther" Gattin
OWNER

Hi Dave,
I'm also kinda new on this site. It's been infomative, encouraging, n quite
entertaining. I can't wait to hear who comes up with what next.
Lorie
   wavydavy91361 <DMSweet@...> wrote: Clearing my throat to announce my
arrival in this group. I have readsome of the messages from this group
(including some messages aboutbogus sheep, and the like) and all I can say is
that I am reallyscared...Seriously, this sounds lke a fun group and I am looking
forward tofurther exchanges.-Dave "The Wave" (40 w/ AMC)


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OK!! Who wrote that? I say that all the time!!!! Or I just show all my
fingers and tell them that it's a whole flock of birds!!     Veronica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Reifensnyder" <jreifens@...>
To: <amc_adults@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:42 PM
Subject: [Adults AMC] Center of Attention - revisited


> On that whole Center of Attention thing - here's a quote for any of you
radical AMCers out there - should you ever need it.. It was given to me by
one of my staff during a "discussion" we were having..Lucky for him... I
loved it..
>
> "You know..if my hands worked the way I want em to..right now..I'd be
giving you the finger!"    :-)
>
> Jeff
>
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your story is great,...i also never thought i
was any different ..even when i was looked at or
teased .and never thought i should settle either .i
have never went to one of these gatherings your
talking of.but would .i did however work for free many
times to get a job ...id say ill work for aweek for
free ,and after that week i usually had the job ,with
pay.the problem is that i also made my amc worse by
trying to prove i was the same....and im not.now ive
raised three girls ..(my youngest graduates in 3years)
.but im lost as to what now .id love to work at
something that i enjoy and that wont hurt my body.id
also like to meet a life partner ..that wont (want a
normal girl).what is normal anyways???i dont think
theres such a thing.  now im off track ..anyway theres
my two bits.  brandie in ..Alaska








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>    Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:36:34 -0000
>    From: "bricklin_forty" <jreifens@...>
> Subject: Center of attention!
>
> I wanted to share a story and see if anybody else
> can relate. It had
> to be about 15 years ago come June that I got my
> first real job
> (despite my voc. rehab counselor's sheltered
> workshop aspirations for
> me)  and went off that summer to a National Council
> on Independent
> Living (NCIL) conference. I got on a small plane in
> Massena N.Y. and
> got off a Jumbo Jet and into a cab in Washington
> D.C. Next thing you
> know I'm at the door of the lobby of the Renissance
> Ramada Hotel.
> Believe me - I was nervous before heading in. See,
> I'm  a small town
> boy and back at the tender age of 25 - I was still
> pretty freaky
> about this thing called disability. Before I go on -
> know some things
> about my youth: Where I came from - people I knew
> never mentioned my
> disability. Thus, I was convinced that if I was to
> hang out with
> other people with disabilities - the people I knew
> might  begin to
> suspect I had one too. Uh Huh! Second; despite the
> feeble attempts I
> made to go through life in that kind of delusional
> camoflage -
> without fail in any public gathering - I got to be
> the gawked at
> center of attention.
>
> O.K., anywise - this I tell you as lead in to my
> saying I was
> terrified of walking through that door. Besides
> having learned to
> eliminate the gawking by avoiding the crowds, I did
> not know what I
> was getting into at that conference. A large part of
> my worry was
> practical. I felt that in a moment, there was a good
> chance that the
> people who took a chance and hired me back home in
> Massena - would
> find out they had hired a guy to represent people
> with disabilities -
> who literally didn't want to associate with them!
> (Heck - my almost
> drank away Bachelor's Degree was in Criminal
> Justice. I only took the
> Independent Living job to eat while waiting out the
> Civil Service
> exams.) Anywise, there I was - about to be found out
> for the Uncle
> Tom that I was - then said the heck with it (after
> all - I had  lied
> my way this far) and went in.  BANG! Walking through
> those doors
> changed my life!
>
> Now don't be thinking I'm about to go on about
> having some kind of
> religious experience here. Quite the contrary. This
> story is about
> how life got better here on earth - when I came to
> find who I really
> was. Picture this - All of a sudden I am in a
> veritable amphitheatre
> that is that Hotel's lobby - looking at the hustle,
> bustle and
> commotion of 500 people experiencing - literally -
> every kind of
> disability you can imagine. People were crusing
> around in chairs,
> pushing gurneys with a stick, using crutches,
> swinging canes,
> following dogs, carrying IV poles - you name it - it
> was there! It
> was....INCREDIBLE!
>
> A couple of things happened to me that day - that
> really did change
> me. The first and most amazing (as it was
> theretofore beyond my
> experience at that point in my life) is that there I
> was in a huge
> crowd of people - and nobody gave me a second look!
> Hello! The second
> thing that happened - and this was definetly related
> to the first -
> was that shortly after arriving in the midst of
> those 500 long time
> activists with every type and severity of disability
> you can imagine -
> I discovered that I was not the chosen one. I was
> not the one person
> on this planet dealing with my level of disability -
> for whom
> disability did not matter. I found this out because
> - of the 500
> people at that conference - 499 of them were doing
> better than me
> simply because they felt better about themselves and
> about who they
> were - than I did!
>
> You know - it's funny but - 15 years later - I'm the
> long timer now.
> And I'm happy to be able to report that as of last
> week I got over
> worrying I'd be found out about my job.  (twenty
> minutes into that
> conference I got over the disability association
> thing - since then
> it's been my sheer incompetence I worry about :-) )
> Anywise, now I
> get to watch the new people come in to the
> Independent Living
> Movement, knowing most are scared to death. I can't
> help but laugh
> when I talk to some of them, particularly when they
> say they are
> unsure they're in the right place. As far as I'm
> concerned - if you
> want equality in this Country and have a disability
> or have a
> personal stake in it  - be part of the Movement.
> Otherwise....
> well...I'm biased..Another time...
>
> You know, when I started this story - I said I
> wanted  to see if
> anybody else on here with AMC could relate to
> something. I don't know
> about you but quite often - I'm still the Center of
> Attention. It's
> just that now - sometimes -that attention is not
> always just finger
> pointing and stares. Sometimes it's applause after
> giving a speech or
> heads turning while cruising in the hot rod. That's
> the kind of
> attention that I like and I'd love to hear from all
> of you out there -
> who get as big a kick as I do - from rising above
> the low expectation
> of others.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
> Message: 2
>    Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 05:59:13 -0000
>    From: "wavydavy91361" <DMSweet@...>
> Subject: Ahem!
>
> Clearing my throat to announce my arrival in this
> group. I have readsome of the messages from this
> group (including some messages aboutbogus sheep, and
> the like) and all I can say is that I am
> reallyscared...Seriously, this sounds lke a fun
> group
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Karen-

Don't do it...the Beamer is a used car...go for a new Beamer!   LOL!!!

Seriously, good for you. And may you have a lifetime of wonderful
experiences with Jamison.

Take Care,

Dave "The Wave"

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hahahahahaha  I LOVE that 1!!!!! hahahahahaha
~Theresa
In a message dated 5/1/2002 7:35:19 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
jreifens@... writes:


> "You know..if my hands worked the way I want em to..right now..I'd be giving
> you the finger!"    :-)
>
> Jeff




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Lorie-

Thanks for the welcome. Look forward to hearing from al of 'youse guys'.

http://community.webtv.net/DMSweet/TheWave

Veronica-

A whole flock of birds!   That's a good one!  Why didn't I say that?

http://community.webtv.net/DMSweet/TheWave

lol..Perfect! Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "veronica" <vlopez@...>
To: <amc_adults@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Adults AMC] Center of Attention - revisited


> OK!! Who wrote that? I say that all the time!!!! Or I just show all my
> fingers and tell them that it's a whole flock of birds!!     Veronica
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Reifensnyder" <jreifens@...>
> To: <amc_adults@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:42 PM
> Subject: [Adults AMC] Center of Attention - revisited
>
>
> > On that whole Center of Attention thing - here's a quote for any of you
> radical AMCers out there - should you ever need it.. It was given to me by
> one of my staff during a "discussion" we were having..Lucky for him... I
> loved it..
> >
> > "You know..if my hands worked the way I want em to..right now..I'd be
> giving you the finger!"    :-)
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
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ok guys I HAD 2 write & say how PROUD of an aunt I am, sorry has nothing 2 do
with amc but i had 2 tell ya!!!
Michael (my nephew, who i have taken care of since he was 3 months) (hes 15
now) is a freshman in high school & of course on the Freshman baseball team,
well he was, yesterday they moved him up, not to the Jr. Varsity team but
VARSITY!! as a freshman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hes an awsome player/pitcher! The 1st
3 games he pitched and struck out 36!!! & had the highest batting average 4
the team!!!!!!! ok sorry i had 2 go on & on but im sooooooo proud of
him!!!!!!!!
~Theresa


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Zing.....bing....okay everyone....watch out for flying shirt buttons!!!

Terry...that is very exciting!  Two of my 3 best friends have sons that are very
good in baseball...they will be very proud of him too!!!

Lori
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: TERRY2745@...
   To: amc_adults@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 8:54 AM
   Subject: [Adults AMC] My nephew


   ok guys I HAD 2 write & say how PROUD of an aunt I am, sorry has nothing 2 do
   with amc but i had 2 tell ya!!!
   Michael (my nephew, who i have taken care of since he was 3 months) (hes 15
   now) is a freshman in high school & of course on the Freshman baseball team,
   well he was, yesterday they moved him up, not to the Jr. Varsity team but
   VARSITY!! as a freshman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hes an awsome player/pitcher! The 1st
   3 games he pitched and struck out 36!!! & had the highest batting average 4
   the team!!!!!!! ok sorry i had 2 go on & on but im sooooooo proud of
   him!!!!!!!!
   ~Theresa


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i would love to bite you theresa..........lol

jeff my name is Latherio i live in louisiana i would like some info on
independent living i live close to new orleans

hahahahahaha  NO BITING!!!!! hahaha
~Theresa

In a message dated 5/3/2002 11:34:03 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
stfrog86@... writes:


> i would love to bite you theresa..........lol




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Folks-

All this talk of biting...it's making me hungry. That's it...no more
e-mail on an empty stomach.
lol...

Dave "The Hungry Wave"

http://community.webtv.net/DMSweet/TheWave

Did I miss something on the biting issue?..... Gee I feel so clueless. can
someone please CLUE me in....BTW........ i got good news as well.........
everyone sit down........ are you sitting?......OK.........................
My best friend of 15 years...... Mike.......... asked me to marry
him.......isn't that wild.......... Naturally I said.
............................. Are you crazy??????????........... then i
thought about it and said.................... not Yes ... but HELL
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....... stay tuned for wedding plans!!!

Sincerely,
Farrah

--- BykrBabeonWheels@... wrote:
> My best friend of 15 years...... Mike..........
> asked me to marry him.......

*Erases Farrah's name from little black book*

Hmmm, let's see who's not taken yet...j/k.
Congratulations Farrah!

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AOL IM - Dango727
Yahoo! - dango727
ICQ - 145748455

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LOL...... Dan you can keep my name in your lil' black book if it makes you
look like a stud to your buddies!!!.hahaha..... J/K..... thanks!...

yours truly,
Farrah