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BigmanPigman

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17. I just emailed it to my sister and said the same thing.

Reply to Atticus (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 12, 2018, 10:45 PM

Feb 2018

I also added that the author knows what our family has always known, which is that trying to discuss anything with this type of person with this life long mindset using reasoning and facts is a lesson in frustration and futility. Not worth our time and energy.

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