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Post by celticthunder1510 on Jun 20, 2011 23:08:57 GMT -5
I tweaked it so he could have some more story and I made it funny!
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Post by !!DerryChick!! on Jun 21, 2011 14:39:14 GMT -5
Updateeerrr
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Post by celticthunder1510 on Jun 21, 2011 21:57:41 GMT -5
Chapter NINETY NINE
“When did you get the fade in the back?” asked Neil as he rubbed the fresh buzz on the back of Damian’s head. The front was still full and thick but, the back had a buzz going on. “If Sharon flips over my blue hair, imagine what she will do you for the fade in the back of your hair! She will go ballistic! What will the fans say? I can just hear her now!” He laughed as Damian turned red from embarrassment.
Damian said, “We have been having such a hot summer, I thought a little fade would be OK for the season. It was bare skin two weeks ago. I imagine I will have a better time of it since my hair will grow in fine and yours has to fade back to its natural color!” as he laughed off the red glow in his cheeks.
Keith took a side by side pic of them and, of course, he posted it to Twitter under the caption of ‘Altered States in Our Band?’ Emmet’s phone went off first and the fans had done a mock-up of what the band would look like in the classic line up of the lads and, Emmet said, “Hey! Look at this mock-up someone did of the six of us-Damo, Me, George, Paul, Keith and Neil with you two looking like you do-not half bad, huh? Sharon can’t yell too badly if that is what the final pic looks like, can she?”
Keith said, “Aside from Neil being a Smurf-head right now, not too bad! And, if I slicked my hair back which darkens it up in photos anyway, the line up would look killer that way! Wanna try it in the studio to freak out Sharon?”
Neil said, “Hey, this was thrown together by Frankie cuz her bass player broke his hand in two places and she needed a fill-in on her gig or she would have lost a ton of money. What was I gonna do-I said I would help. She punked me out and this is what I look like as a ‘normal’ person. I brought the outfit if ya wanna see me up close in the riggings.”
“And I brought me pipes, in case ya fancy a tune or two from me repertoire.” Frankie chimed in.
Neil got his clothes out of the trunk of his car and went into Damian’s room and changed and then Frankie went in and spiked out his hair for him. He came back out to the decking and the kids walked up to him and Keith said, “Wow, Unca Neil. You flat out rock! You look so tough!”
Keith said, “I wouldn’t call him tough looking, mate! He looks like a rocker, though. Do you need a lead guitar for this jam session?”
Sami asked, “Um, Daddy? Do you think they need a drummer?”
Frankie said with wide eyes, “She can play drums? That is so cool that you let her play what she wants to, Damian! Extra cookie for you!” At the mere mention of an extra cookie, his face lit up with happiness.
Chellie helped her set up her drums on the deck and they had a proper jam session for about three hours. Teri set up a dinner buffet and they ate dinner there and played until the Triples bedtime. When they protested, Frankie said, “Sami-girl? If you ever want to come and sit in with me at any of my open air venues, I would make a seat for you in my band! We could tease out your hair and get you in some black and you would fit right in! She has real style, Damian! You should be so proud of her and her talents!”
“Why can’t I play with you at your gig in Donegal and stay with Unca Keith and Auntie Ariella?” Sami asked trying to use her blue eyed magic on the adults in the room.
Frankie said, “Cuz people in the Bull and Claw smoke, love, and that is not a good thing for you to be breathing in all night, you know what I mean?”
When all of the other adults agreed to that, Sami asked, “Where is your next open air gig then?”
“Glasgowbury, love.” Frankie answered her. “Do you have any objections to her doing Glasgowbury with us, Damian? She would be the youngest drummer there and I swear I would let nothing happen to her. I only met her today but she feels like a Muse to me!” That comment drew sharp looks from Chellie, Ari, Teri and Damian-more of shock than anything else. She laughed and said, “If there was such a thing as a Muse, she is it-this kid can play and she caught on to licks I use in my songs-she is a genius, you know that?” When she said thatm the four of them (in the know, that is) visibly relaxed.
Damian said, “Um, Teri? What do you think? I think we could all go to Glasgowbury-oh shoot, the kids have a footy tourney that week…”
Teri said, “Damian, you go to the Festival with our little princess and have a great time-I can handle the boys at a footy tourney. It’s a cinch!”
Sami focused all of her energy on her daddy and said, “Please dad? I would love to go and do this! It would be wicked fun-epic, even! Please?” as she batted her eyes at him, finally crumbling his resolve.
“OK, we can come!” Damian finally said.
Frankie and Neil picked up Sami and spun her in the air. “You are gonna be a star, Sami-girl!”
Sami went to bed happier than she had been in ages! When everyone had packed up their instruments and got ready to head home, Neil dove through the showers and washed all the gel and make up off his head and then got the tee shirt and shorts on from that morning. They all got ready to drive off and Damian said, “When should we meet up at your place, Neil? Well, I am going to be staying at the place Frankie rented till Glasgowbury so, the house at the end of the road from Keith. We leave that next morning so, we should all leave from there.”
Neil was driving home and he looked over at Frankie and said, “Do you think Sami is good enough to hold her own out there on a live stage at a Festival? I am worried she won’t be able to handle it.”
Frankie said, “She is amazing on the drums. She can keep up and I know she will rock the house! I will have Eddie, our regular drummer, work with her the night she gets there so he can teach her the changes and stuff. She is a natural-she will be fine!”
The three weeks passed and Neil went in to the Celtic Thunder offices to do his publicity photos and show Sharon his blue hair. Damian was there as well for his publicity photos and they both had to be CGIed as Sharon was not happy with Damo’s half grown in buzz. “What possessed these two numptys to alter their looks in BEYOND me!” she said in a frustrated tone. She said, “It is no fair that I CAN’T yell at you the way I should be because you brought my Sami-girl in to see me, Damian McGinty. Why did you come Sami-girl?”
“Unca Neil and Frankie are gonna put me on the Drums tomorrow in Glasowbury and let me jam with them, Auntie Sharon. I am getting punked out for it, too! I can’t wait!” Sami said, excitedly. Sharon sat down hard and sighed loud enough for Phil to come in the room and ask, “What did you two numptys do to frustrate her now?”
Sami told him what she told Sharon and he slumped into the chair next to her and said, “Holy cricket!” and shook his head slowly back and forth. “Just don’t punk her out TOO badly, Frankie, please? She is too pretty as she is to be a Punk Goddess at age six!”
That night, Damian took Sami to the house with Frankie and Neil and they met Eddie who found he did not have to teach Sami much of anything behind his drum kit which he said, “Damian, mate? This kid of yours? She is a genius on the skins, mate!”
Damian swelled up with pride and he was very proud of his child. Her bought her an ice cream and as they were walking back to the house, he asked her, “Sami, is drumming something you want to do when you get bigger?”
“No, daddy. I want to sing like you do someday but, right now, Neil asked me to play drums in his second band. He is my Godfather-he wants my help. I am six, right? We’re immortals. Unca Neil is not and I won’t have him forever. I want to help him while I can. I know when he dies I can make him a Muse after he dies but I am gonna hate watching him get old and not be able to stop it, you know?”
Damian said, “Well, if he marries Frankie, he can be happy like your mum and me, Unca Paul and Auntie Seffi, Unca Keith and Auntie Ariella, Unca George and Auntie Carrie, and Unca Emmet and Chellie when they get married. We want him to be happy. I am learning about being immortal just like you, darlin. It is a fast learning curve, huh?” When she nodded sadly, he said, “I love them all like brothers and sisters and it will be hard when they all get older and die. We can make them Muses when they die but, I know what you mean, Sami-girl. Time is not nice all the time, huh? We just gotta love em along the way, huh?”
“Daddy, I will always love you best, though!” Sami said, as she took Damian’s hand and kept on walking. He choked and sighed as a tear of happiness slid down his cheek in silence.
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Post by celticbear on Jun 21, 2011 22:56:03 GMT -5
Wow! Frankie all most figured it out! I can just imagine how scared the others where! Hey Chris Sami won't be alone! Have you forgotten that festival in Glasowbury is the same one Keith does every July! So Keith,Rebecca and the Durty Stop outs will be there won't they? I also love Sharon's and Phil's reaction to Sami playing at the festival! Priceless! PLEASE UPDATE SOON!
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Post by GalwayGirl on Jun 21, 2011 22:59:37 GMT -5
I loved the update!!! It was so cute and sweet!! I'm glad that Damian agreed to let her play the drums with Frankie!! Hehe poor Sharon I think that Neil and Damian definitely gave her some grey hair with their new hairstyles and what they wanted to do to Sami!!! lol I love the sweet moment between Sami and Damian at the end!! Update soon please!!
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Post by celticthunder1510 on Jun 21, 2011 23:33:19 GMT -5
Auntie I added something about Keith's band for you-hope you see it and like it! I will post something something tomorrow around this time of the night! Hugs to you all! Thank you for reading and posting for me!
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Post by !!DerryChick!! on Jun 22, 2011 17:34:13 GMT -5
Awe that's a sweet update Sami is a sweetheart
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Post by celticthunder1510 on Jun 22, 2011 22:11:42 GMT -5
Chapter ONE HUNDRED
The next day, Ariella, Keith, Neil, Frankie, her band, Damian and Sami all headed out for the Glasgowbury Festival and took note of where Keith’s band was playing and when Frankie’s band was playing and watched the times.
Frankie and Neil took Sami backstage and Frankie went to work punking out Sami by spiking her hair and pinning it back in odd angles, putting eyeliner and mascara on her and putting a bright bubble gum pink lip on her to make her face pop. They dressed her in black leather and a bright purple shirt. When Frankie Stuart and Chili con Celtic took the stage, Damian, Keith and Ariella were in the front row of people and they were all stunned when Sami took her seat behind the drums and began to play one of the songs Keith had heard on the CD he had bought and he nudged Damian and said, “Sami-girl is playing the daylights out of that song! She is in perfect time! I may use her in MY set-she is THAT frelling good!”
Damian could not get over how made over she was! People were cheering her on like mad in the crowd and when Frankie announced who was onstage in her band, when she got to, “On drums, Sami McGinty!” Sami did a bit on her drums and the audience went nuts at how good she really was!
The minute she was done with her set for them, Damian had her out of the punk clothes into her tee shirt and jeans and freshly scrubbed clean of all the make up and hair stuff so she looked like his little girl again. He told Frankie, “:She is not doing drums for you again until she is 16 at least-she was scary up there with you. Good but, very scary-not like her sweet adorable self, you know?”
Frankie laughed and said, “OK, Damo, whatever you say! Hey! Not even if we toned it down a bit?”
“If you tone it down a lot then maybe she can do it again” he said, agreeing only grudgingly.
Meanwhile Keith’s drummer had not shown up for his gig so, he begged Damian to let him use Sami for HIS band and Damian said a very reluctant, “OK, Keith. Just this one set, alright?” as Sami screamed for another chance to help one of her Uncles out of a jam.
Keith and Rebecca rocked the house and Sami became an instant star on drums for two different bands. Keith wanted her to play with his band all weekend and Rebecca was amazed at how Damian hid her talents from everyone for as long as he did. Since his drummer was MIA, Keith begged to use Sami for the whole weekend and Damian did not have the heart to say no to Keith or his little girl so he gave her permission. Keith wanted her to record with his band and Damian said, “That is up to Teri, mate. It’s one thing to let her play with you live but, another altogether to have her record with your band. Nope, it is totally up to her mother on that one.”
Keith hopped on his cell phone and asked Teri who said, “OK, if Damian put this decision on me, I will top him and put the choice to record on Sami. If she says yes, she can do it. But, if she says no, her decision is final, Keith. Deal?”
Keith smiled a confident smile and said, “Deal, Teri love. You have a deal/” He went up to Sami and asked her in his best ‘say yes’ voice, “Um, Sami-girl? Your mum and dad have given you a choice to make. You can say yes and I will be very happy or, no, and I won’t be upset, I promise you.”
Sami sighed and asked, “What do you want me to do, Unca Keith?”
Keith asked, “Would you like to record songs with me for my new CD, Sami-girl? I need a drummer since mine went MIA and I know I can count on my niece not to let me down like that.”
“This is MY choice?” she asked in a happy voice.
Keith, “Yep.”
Sami threw her arms around his neck and said, “Yes, Unca Keith. I will drum for your band! This is awesome. Do I get to go on tour with you, too?”
Damian said, “If you drum for his CD, you get to go on tour with him. I am trusting you big time to be good for Uncle Keith and I am trusting Uncle Keith with my baby girl. She gets so much as a scratch on her and I will turn Teri loose on you!”
Sami hugged Damian and said, “I am gonna make you so proud, Dad!”
Meanwhile, Sharon had seen the Twitter pics of Sami in all her punked out glory and come completely unglued. She made a new set of guidelines and rules for everyone in the band to follow about their appearance and posted it in every members email box.
She wrote: Recently, via multiple Twitter accounts from people all over the Celtic Thunder family, I have seen band members alter their looks. I have seen the children of band members alter their looks. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! If any of you alter your looks without my consent or permission, there will we consequences. Do not make me come to where you offenders are and FIX what you have done to yourselves. I will only say this once-if I catch anyone doing this again where it cannot be changed back in one night, I will have no trouble replacing you. Love you like sons and brothers but, you are a brand and you are MY business…REMEMBER THAT! Thank you, Sharon Browne.
Neil gulped and said, “Sorry, Damo, Keith. I think I gave Sharon one too many headaches with my new look. Forgive me for dragging your daughter into this and all?”
Damian, “Course I do, Neil. Her look washed off-yours, not so much. Are ya gonna be able to take those earrings out by the time the shows start in New York City?”
“Oh yeah I can take em out now if I wanted to but, I want to leave em in for a bit longer. I have to go to the United States earlier than I would ordinarily cuz Frankie needs me to play bass for five Highland Games Festivals and I know Paul would LOVE to see you before the shows. Here’s a thought-come with us over early! It would be amazing, right? Seffi and Paul would love to see you and the kids. Could be an adventure, Damo? What do you think?”
Damian thought it over and called Teri and asked her what she thought. Teri said, “Why on earth not? This could be a blast! Let’s do it!”
Sami was bouncing in her seat and she asked, “Unca Neil? Are we all going to America together?” When he nodded she screamed, “Oh this is so great! I love you Unca Neil! You are the best Uncle ever!”
“And why is that Sami-Girl?” Neil asked her as he tried to pry her arms from around his neck to look at her.
“You got Daddy to leave for America early! I bet the Twinners are walking by now! Wonder how Unca Paul is dealing with that, huh? Maeve and Jonathan are probably running all over the place by now and driving Unca Paul and Auntie Seffi nuts!
Neil said, “When they start talking full on sentences like you Keith and Kevin, Paul will go nuts. When you three talk and finish each other’s sentences, it creeps me out a bit.” To Frankie, he said, “Wait till you get on the plane with the Triples. When they get in a groove and finish each other’s sentences, you will get creeped out a bit too!”
Two days later, Neil, Frankie, the members of her band and Damo and his family boarded a plane and headed for New York City. Damian texted Paul and said, ‘How are we gonna get Neil in a prank? He already looks like the poster boy for 80s punk rock. What can WE do?’
Paul, ‘Well, I say we hijack his cell phone which has his Twitter account on it and we plug a couple rumors into it so he has to come out and defend himself. Like he is getting married this year. That would be the business!’
Damian, ‘He is putting out a totally punk CD would be more damaging to his fans, don’t you think? He would have to work overtime to fix that, right?’
Sami said, ‘Dad, are you trying to prank Unca Neil? Can I help? I have an idea.’
Paul asked in her head, ‘OK, Sami-girl. What is your great prank idea?’
Sami, ‘How bout we just sort of ‘haunt’ him till he is jittery. You know, make him believe in ghosts-that could be funny and fun for us Triples to do. In fact we could get Unca George, Unca Keith and Unca Declan with that, too! That could be fun, scaring them all to pieces for fun!’
Paul thought that over and smiled when he said, ‘Why, yes. I think you and your brothers can pay them back but good for us! Love that you came up with a particularly easy and fun way to get them all-scaring them should be a cinch, right, Damo?’
Damian smiled and said in both their heads, ‘This is a nice idea, Sami. Perfect because it can NEVER be traced back to us, Paul. I mean how could you trace a floating book to us? And this will give you guys a chance to practice your levitations skills and that is a good thing! Even your grandmother would be happier if you could handle that a bit better, right?’
Sami ran the thought by her brothers and they both said, ‘This is a brilliant idea, Sami. We can so do this and never get caught-a cinch!’
Sami and her brothers leaned over their seats and Sami asked, “:Unca Neil?”
Keith, “We have a question for you?”
Kevin, “Do you believe in ghosts?”
Neil said, “See what I mean, Frankie?” When she nodded he answered them, “There is no such thing as ghosts, guys. Why?”
Sami, ‘Well, the hotel, “
Kevin, “Where we are staying, “
Keith, “Is supposed to be haunted.”
The three of them together then said, “We just wanted to know, Unca Keith.”
Frankie said, “I see where it is creepy, Neil. They are amazing!” as the kids laughed at her saying they were amazing.
Sami said, ‘We planted a seed, guys. Now, we make it grow.’
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Post by GalwayGirl on Jun 22, 2011 22:37:16 GMT -5
I loved the update!!!! I definitely think that Sharon had enough!! lol I loved how Sami was able to play for both Frankie and Keith and that she will be able to record and play with Keith!! I am sure that they will have a great time in the U.S, and I can't wait to see what happens next! Update soon please!!
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Post by celticbear on Jun 22, 2011 22:49:43 GMT -5
Chris! it was about time The True Sharon came out of hidding! I can so see Sharon sending that text for real if the Lad's everpulled the stunt they pulled in this story! Love the whole Haunting the others to get even Prank! BRING ON THE NEXT CHAPTER! And I'm happy that Sami gets to record and tour with her Uncle Keith!
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Post by celticthunder1510 on Jun 23, 2011 23:12:54 GMT -5
Chapter ONE HUNDRED ONE
Keith, ‘How do we do that?’
Kevin smiled, ‘We use a little levitation on him and freak him out a bit.’
Sami said, ‘But, we have to do so he comes to Daddy to not be scared anymore.”
Kevin, ‘Whoa. Then that means Dad has to be in on it from the start or HE’LL get scared too.’
Keith laughed, “You know what a scaredy cat he is about haunted things, Sami. He’ll freak unless we let him in on it.’
Sami frowned, ‘We have to let him in on it. But you guys know dad-he has NOT got a good poker face. I can beat him at blackjack without using my powers cuz I can see how happy he gets when he thinks he can beat me.’
Keith, ‘We’ll have to try to teach him about how to keep a straight face when we begin the ‘scare fest’.’
Kevin, ‘Yeah, that’ll be EASY. You know how he gets if someone tells him he can have an extra cookie? If he has to sit on inside info on our prank, he will explode if mum gets to him with a cookie.’
Sami smiled, ‘Unca Paul can keep him in line. We can tell him too and he can keep Dad in line and protect us. Simple!’
Keith smiled and said, ‘Unca Paul can clue in Dad and let him know when we start so Dad won’t be scared and trip the alarm with mum.’
Kevin asked, ‘Um, OK. So, we set this up. When do we start to scare Unca Neil?’
Sami said, ‘When we get to New York City, we can start trying to scare the daylights out of all of them at the same time. If they are all in the same room, this should be a cinch. The four of them never should have ruined our party for Dad and Unca Paul in the first place.’
Keith said, ‘But this means we get Unca Emmet twice? Is that fair, really?’
Kevin said, ‘Oh yeah that is fair. Did you see all of the times he hacked into Dad’s Twitter account while they were recording the last CD? This is just enough payback!’
Sami said, “We only have to wait a few days till they get here. When they do, we can begin haunting them. It’ll be fun!’
The rest of the band finally arrived at the hotel Sharon had chosen and were in the process of settling in. Sharon called Damian and Neil and asked them to meet up at the hotel with them. She looked Damian over and said, “You finally look normal again. Lucky you. Now, as for you. Neil, you are still frosted blue? You need to either cut the shag off or, get it dyed back to your natural color within the next week or, well, let’s just not face the consequences of what I may have to do, shall we?”
Keith, who had gone with Damian to see his Auntie Sharon was scared that she threatened his Unca Neil so, he got angry. He thought of a plan to frighten her and, when the three of them had left her room, Keith rattled her closet door. She went to it and looked inside and saw the hangers moving like they were in a breeze. She thought it was due to the room door closing and thought nothing of it. Then, the bathroom door opened on its own and that was on the opposite side of the suite so, she got a bit unnerved by that. Due to her jet lag, she went to sleep on her bed and Keith went to town in her dreams, giving her lovely dreams that twisted into scary (to her) nightmares which woke her several times through the course of the day. She woke up at 4 that afternoon with no real rest and a bit shaky considering things in her room were ALL put away for her and she did not remember unpacking a single thing. Keith had done it to really unnerve her and it worked. She was thoroughly scared out of her wits, just the way Keith wanted her, good and paranoid.
Emmet and George were rooming together. Sami and Kevin smiled as they watched them getting settled in and saw where they had left things like their glasses and their shoes so, when they went to sleep off their jet lag, the two of them moved everything around and then, after they had done all of that, they rattled the door in the bathroom loud enough for Emmet to wake up. He looked over at the bathroom and went for his glasses which were nope, not on the nightstand where he had left them. He squinted and looked for them. He found them on the table and padded over to get them only to see them slide across the table which scared him enough to shout, “George! George! Wake up! The room is haunted!”
George woke up and groggily said, “Huh? Emmet? Are you sleepwalking again? There is no such thing as ghosts so, the room is not haunted. Go back to sleep, Emmet and relax. You have too much jet lag, mate.”
Emmet jumped on George’s bed and said, “I can’t sleep any more so, I am going for a walk. You be careful in here, OK?” He grabbed his coat and glasses and left the room. He went out on the street and looked up at his room and watched in a bit of fear as the shades in the room moved to the closed position on their own. That completely freaked him out. He ran to the subway and went to Paul’s house and banged on the door in a complete panic.
Paul answered the door with Jonathan in his arms and said, “Emmet? What’s wrong? Why do you look so freaked out? What happened?”
Emmet told Paul what the trouble was and then begged him for a couple hours of sleep on his couch. Paul outwardly looked serious but, inside, he was laughing his butt off and he sent out a thought to the Triples, ‘OK, whichever of you that freaked out Emmet, well done! He is well and truly spooked out. I am so proud of you. Hopefully you got pictures of him scared out of his wits…Did you?’
Sami, ‘Of course we got pics on Dad’s camera phone but, we need your help to send them to Twitter, Unca Paul. We have mum bringing us to visit you so you can help us. We told mum we wanted to see Maeve and Jonathan so, we can give you the camera and let you do your magic while we do ours, OK?’
Paul, ‘OK! Thanks, Sami-girl! Let the scare fest begin!’
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Post by celticbear on Jun 23, 2011 23:21:52 GMT -5
Poor Sharon,and Emmet, but they both deserve what they got! This whole Haunting prank is going to be the best prank of them all! I think we know who the true CT prank-masters are:THE McGINTY TRIO! UPDATE SOON! PLEASE!
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Post by GalwayGirl on Jun 23, 2011 23:53:42 GMT -5
I loved the update!!! Poor Sharon!! Little Keith got her really good!! lol Poor Emmet!!!!! I feel sorry for him!! Hehe but I can't wait to see what happens next!! Update soon please!!!
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Post by !!DerryChick!! on Jun 24, 2011 11:05:21 GMT -5
Updatee!!!!!
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Post by musicgirl on Jun 24, 2011 16:31:52 GMT -5
that was cute!!
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