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I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

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Brian Andreas
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 17
Artist
Painter
Writer
Iowa City
Iowa
Blame
Agree
Told
Friends
Stuff
Everything
Teenage

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