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EndlessWire

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13. You are so right.

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #6)

Thu May 8, 2025, 01:35 PM

May 2025

I'm glad they got their choice of Pope, but now rump has some leverage against the Church. If I were him, I wouldn't let rump summons me, ever.

"Revenge fetish." Love that. Never thought of it that way, but it is also correct, and you furnished the whole picture in two words. Wonderful phrase.

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