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heaven05

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Reply to pansypoo53219 (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 07:25 AM

Aug 2016

I was just the other day thinking the same thing....I wondered if a black swimmer who had to go through rehab ect: ect: for abuse of different types(domestic and other)would not be in prison and not in the Olympics, Vollybally. Sick of it.

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