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Three Cups of Tea – 2006

Three Cups of Tea: One Man

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Finding your life’s purpose and changing the lives of nearly 24,000 children and their parents in the process [...]

Curious stares

The Mike Singletary Stare

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Maher gets an A ’cause he’s a donkey

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 – The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist – 1999

The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lemony Snicket should be purchased and perused by audiences of all ages: that is to say, despite the gruesome awful and terrible events befalling the hapless children [...]

Shaniya’s Villan

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Here, genetically irrelevant instincts are startled to usefulness. They ineffectually  fight specters slaying feminine spirits before the approach of [...]

Finally, Our Family Had “The Talk!!!”

Creative Loafing, (bad daddy!!)

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The Boys of Spring – Photo Essay

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