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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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-- Anonymous Automotive Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
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-- Anonymous Automotive
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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-- Petrarch It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
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