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	The Cab Ride

mugofcoffee

7-3-2009 12:46 AM

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mugofcoffee says:

too moving an incident...a visit to the site shall help you in reading it from the beginning to the end: only a short piece of work...

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7-3-2009 9:03 AM

kkcapricorn

7-3-2009 1:58 PM

tanyamm

What a beautiful story.

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