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Tales from my lame life. Enjoy.
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Scoring weed while living in my grandparents yacht and losing a foot race to fatties and retards. It is my sadly funny American experience.
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A sunny day in grade school. Students line up to race. Let the games begin.
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This is a true story about how pathetic my life was after dropping out of my first college
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