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	The Groundhog Fraud

wiccantexan

2-1-2009 11:37 PM

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weather, myth, groundhog day, history, pagan

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2-2-2009 5:01 PM

tanyamm

Any way you look at it we're going to have 6 more weeks of winter.

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