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nadinbrzezinski

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10. I wish this story even shocked me a smidgen

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Jan 21, 2016, 06:59 PM

Jan 2016

but it truly does not anymore. 1 in 3 AA males will go to jail one point his his lifetime... those are the statistics. The next generation already knows...

Kid should be talking of what he wants to be when he grows up, but I am betting it is not just dad in jail

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