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Broken in Bolivia
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Dear Barbara and Andrian thank you for downloading on your blog our team group photo. We wish you luck.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great if continue to communicate, and maybe in "P to p 2013" we will meet again.
P.s My e-mail tret_andrew@mail.ru
That's amazing. Love the hat and can't believe your red strings are still on...perhaps your basi is the only thing holding you together at times, therefore I'm happy the nun had her knots down.
ReplyDeleteOnward my friends!