Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss


	Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss

prin1

1-14-2009 11:33 PM

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1-17-2009 1:17 AM

chedare

So much for personal chemistry as in the film,'The way we were",..... "it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all" if these kind of drugs become wide spread what a droll lot of clones people will be in my opinion.

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