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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
New York
Population
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Mean
Willingly
Wives
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Slavery

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