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At least there were spaces between the words.

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There, fixed it.
63 posted on 10/22/2009 10:13:37 AM PDT by 109ACS (Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed!)
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To: 109ACS

That makes for shorter paragraphs!


68 posted on 10/22/2009 10:18:36 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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