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	Little house... sweet home :))

yorkville

4-10-2008 6:02 AM

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toronto, ontario, canada, small, house, home, little, smallest

yorkville says:

Though as European I have serious problems with understanding how little it is - it's curious that Canada officialy is a metric country, but all Canadians love to be so much american, that they use only foot and inch measures...

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