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Shabbat Shmooze ~ Finally! Germany opens their huge Nazi crimes archive to public
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May. 10th, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
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The International Tracing Service (ITS) in the western town of Bad Arolsen contains about 50 million records on some 17 million victims of Hitler's Nazi regime. ...
... It even contains the names of people on "Schindler's List" -- hundreds of Jews saved by businessman Oskar Schindler -- which was the subject of a Steven Spielberg film.
Quote ~ "If these records had been opened earlier, they might have found each other. I could have found those documents 20 years ago, when she was still alive."
Story by MELISSA EDDY
Friday, May 9, 2008 7:45 AM MDT
( Read the entire article behind this cut )
More quotes: - Her parents survived the war, but her late father never talked about what happened to him or why he had a long scar down his neck.
But her unusual family name came up on an index card from a displaced persons camp in Italy. It contained detailed information about her father. "It listed every place he had been," she said - from Russia, to Tashkent, to surviving a shot to his neck by the Nazis by falling into a cellar and being left for dead.
- Tom Weiss of Newton, Mass. found his uncle's name on a yellowing Gestapo list of Jews arrested in France.
"When you see his name on these original lists it has an emotional impact," he said. "It sent chills down my back."
- "The Nazis took away our names and gave us numbers. Our role is to take away the numbers and give back the names," Gary Mokotoff, a genealogist who helped organize the group from Israel, the U.S., Britain and Australia, said Thursday. "There is a wealth of information here."
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One big reason why this touches yon eppylover, when usually it seems she's pretty discompassionate about the human condition in general (shades of Carlin and Napier-Bell) ~ is a small repartée that occurred awhile back with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) layla1188 ~ Brian was a little Jewish kid during the Holocaust
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Shabbat Shmooze ~ I Heart Allan Sherman
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May. 3rd, 2008 @ 02:46 pm
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EPPYLOVER SAYS:
Allan Sherman is much, MUCH more than just "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Camp Grenada)"...!
I myself am proud to have owned, since forever, and on glorious original vinyl,
the LP's My Son The Folk Singer, My Son The Celebrity, and My Son The Nut
The Parody’s Over:
Whither Our Era’s Mickey Katz
or Allan Sherman?
Essay
By David Kaufmann
Tue. Jan 08, 2008
In the 11 months since it was released on YouTube, Leah Kauffman’s parody of Justin Timberlake, “My Box in a Box,” has been viewed more than 4 million times. Her “I’ve Got a Crush…on Obama” — out since June 2007 — has been hit close to 5 million times.
Like Kauffman, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, “Reno 911” and “The Simpsons,” bless them, have done what they can to restore parody to its once prominent position in American comedy.
Nevertheless, their welcome success cannot hide the fact that at the movies, on television and on the radio, parody is just not as big as it was. While there is a lot of funny stuff going around these days, there just isn’t as much good, old-fashioned parody.
Especially Jewish parody. ( I’m sensitive to this because... )the sanctioned tumult, the wild rumpus of anarchism, which, as Gershom Scholem claimed, lies at the very heart of Judaism.
David Kaufmann teaches literature at George Mason University.
The Jewish Daily Forward
Copyright © 2007 Forward Association, inc.
Allan Sherman mini-bio and discography
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Happy Last Day of Passover!
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Apr. 25th, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
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 "Quick Pesach Fun" ~
from an Israeli standup comic's blog called What War Zone?
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Sorry, nothing you can do will make the eppylover kosher,
for Passover or anything else. 
In other news...
Maggi Hambling Chosen
to create Liverpool statue
of Brian Epstein?
Lots of clickable enlargable thumbnail examples of her previous work. Yikes.
Please tell me if you think I'm an old poop,
but I think I make a few good points...?
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Shabbat Shmooze ~ Passover Kosher Shortages! Pesach Playlist! RECIPES!
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Apr. 19th, 2008 @ 05:04 pm
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Shabbat Shmooze ~ Nu? Fran Drescher starring in Camelot?
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Apr. 12th, 2008 @ 07:29 pm
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Wow. I can't believe I haven't posted since the 9th.
Just haven't been able to drag myself around (online) very well lately, I guess.
It's still a bit daylight out right now, so ...
Click [ here ] for an article about Fran Drescher playing Morgen le Fey in a semi-staged production of “Camelot,” her debut with the New York Philharmonic next month.
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Plus, due to her insistence, here's a little contribution from the animé & videogame-loving Stephy:
I must admit I cracked up a few times at this.
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Shabbat Shmooze ~ Sean Altman's fave Beatle ~ and other joys of Jewmongous
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Apr. 4th, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
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A Jew's favorite Beatles member can't be John, Paul, George or Ringo.
To Sean Altman, the favorite has to be the most Jewish member of all - Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager.
And here's the song!
I dedicate this video to Frizz K West, who "gets" it!
More about Sean, and more hilarious vids!
( Altman is most known for... )
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Shabbat Shmooze ~ Judaism in Star Trek
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Mar. 22nd, 2008 @ 05:52 pm
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A speaking engagement by none other than Leonard Nimoy
I adore his story of himself as a little boy!
(sorry, embedding was disabled on this video)
( Sure beats Jesus on a waffle! )
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Shabbat Shmooze ~ a comic and a vid today
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Mar. 15th, 2008 @ 02:46 pm
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Note: My online presence today is somewhat cramped by the omnipresence of the Og.
He makes me very self-conscious of what's on my screen.
So anyone waiting for anything from me ~ I'm sorry ~ I will get to it.
( a double dose of cacamamie: Part 2 is Beatles-related )
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Not LJ-cut ~ because, noooo, I don't think even the most anal of religionists could possibly find this one offensive ~~~ or could they?
via bilerico.com
thanks, Rachel (ecdysiasm) for the link to the vid!
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Okay, here's something I should have posted yesterday (Saturday a.k.a. Shabbos).
Purim is coming up, commencing at sunset Thursday, March 20 and ending at sunset Saturday, March 22
When Is - Dates of Religious and Civil Holidays Around the World
This year, I really wish I could find out what hamentaschen taste like.
Oh, and I've also always wondered about kreplach, since I've absolutely loved that word like forever.
Stupid reason, but yeah!
Mar. 9th, 2008 @ 06:55 pm
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I feel obligated to provide a shmooze... if anyone cares.
So here's something I had put on hold just in case this sort of situation cropped up and I didn't feel like bothering:
( So, nu? )
Mar. 1st, 2008 @ 07:17 pm
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I dunno how many of you wait with bated breath
(or baited breath, if you've just eaten minnows & worms)
for my Saturday Drekfest.
So I gotta do something here today.
So here:
JewTube
So, nu?
Click around, enjoy, and you got nuttin' to kvetch about now.
Feb. 23rd, 2008 @ 08:51 pm
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*** In which Jon interprets a primary, Cali-Yiddishly ~~ Brian Epstein in a Jewfro dances badly ~~ and [tragically wtf] a dangerous kiddie show ***
( Three videos in three different moods )
And on that note......Shabbat Shalom. Please.
Feb. 16th, 2008 @ 02:41 pm
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- "Although typical costumes include farm animals and monsters, masquerading is sometimes broadly referred to as 'eiti zydukais,' or 'going as Jews,' regardless of how one dresses"
- "...he was greeted by two children dressed in horns and tails, reciting a song that translates as, 'We’re the little Lithuanian Jews/We want blintzes and coffee/If you don’t have blintzes/Give us some of your money.' (It rhymes in Lithuanian.)"
- "People think it’s normal"
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The Eppy Connection: Brian Epstein's grandparents fled from Lithuania around the turn of the 20th century.
Eppylover is mystified: Gee, I wonder whyyyy?!
If it's like this NOW, can you even imagine how it must have been 100 years ago...?!
--- By Michael Casper
Wed. Feb 06, 2008
( Vilnius, Lithuania - )
When asked whether it could be seen as offensive to mock these minorities, Krisciuniene replied, “No one has ever complained.” The intent, she said, is humorous.
“Besides,” she added, “it’s true that Gypsies steal.”
Copyright © 2007 Forward Association, inc.
Feb. 8th, 2008 @ 08:55 pm
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There are all these big headlines now about Israel apologizing to The Beatles for cancelling their appearance in 1965.
None of them seem to quite get at the entire truth.
However, last July (2007) I had made a post on just that subject ~
SEE ~ http://eppylover.livejournal.com/286880.html
As Walter Cronkite used to close out his newscast, "and THAT's the way it is!" ...errmmm, was.
( For a more amusing slant on the Beatles/Israel blather... )
p.s. Israel denies they apologized?
Israel denies they apologized for Beatles snub
More than 40 years after it barred the Beatles from playing there, Israel said it wants the surviving members to participate in a concert celebrating the country's 60th birthday. But the Israeli embassy in London denied a report that they had apologized for its original refusal to let the Beatles perform in the country. [more...]
Source: Fox News, via WhatGoesOn.com
Feb. 2nd, 2008 @ 01:22 am
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Before she once again forgets, your busy eppylover posts a bit of text that she found somewhere sometime.
This bit must have touched her in a special way ~ and, I'll admit, it still does.
It simply isn't one Jewish inventor or one isolated Jewish moment of brilliance. Jewish wisdom and talent is far exceeding. Choose any field, and you will find that Jews have excelled in it.
If you look at Jewish success as a whole, it's amazing. Once you factor in their 1/4 of 1% standing in the world's populace, every Jewish success then becomes tenfold; e.g., of the 660 Nobel prizes from 1901-1990, 160 have been won by Jews. That number translates into winning 40 x more than should be expected of them, simply based on their low population numbers. In the end, Jews win more Nobel prizes than any other ethnicity.
From Jesus to Moses, Christianity to The Sabbath, Einstein to Freud, Hollywood to Spielberg, polio vaccine to the syphilis cure, Jews have been graced with the gift of talent: talent in every field of human endeavor.
My heroes :D
Jan. 18th, 2008 @ 08:44 pm
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Yeah, yeah, I'm late again. 'Twas a busy day, awright?
Here ya go ~
Jewish classics seriously funked up behind a children's chorus of delight.
Funky Fiddler on the Roof, Disco Debbie Friedman, Hip Hop Hasidic.
You don't have to be Jewish to love it.
( From the composer of Dora the Explorer... )
Done in the spirit of inclusion, Jewish FunkeyMonkeys! is for everyone. You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy it thoroughly.
Jan. 12th, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
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The Jewish Chronicle, London
4 January, 2008
This weekend, Greenbank Drive Synagogue — which counted the family of the late Beatles manager Brian Epstein among its members — will close, 70 years after it was consecrated.
( This is the same building where Brian... )
A sad nostalgic farewell, Greenbank Drive Synagogue.
Jan. 4th, 2008 @ 09:51 pm
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I'm putting up a short post using Stephy's laptop (which she's already pushing me off of, blast it all) to tell y'all I'm still alive. As if.
In exchange for her kindness, she requires that I publish her latest fave Jeebus pic.
If you don't know the Katamari game, you won't get it.
( Not for the easily offended )
I'm still working at setting up the new 'puter. Every time I turn around it seems I have forgotten to transfer something over, and must access the external hard drive again. This holiday season is also a bit more tumultuous than usual, so I'm existing mainly in the brick&mortar world lately. Until everything's all set on the 'puter, I shall not connecticate it to the innertubes.
Also, since I have missed the shmooze yesterday, here's a link that I've had sitting around ~ Beatley and Briany people might find it interesting, in a Jewishy sorta way. Or not.
Volunteers drive eclectic learning at LimmudLA
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Angeleno Judy Aronson attended a session on the Jews and the Beatles, where she sat next to the former neighbor of Beatle's manager Brian Epstein. ...
Um. Yikes. Stephy has now set her phaser on "kill" and the mom must beam out.
Have a nice New Years Eve if I'm not back!
Dec. 30th, 2007 @ 05:37 pm
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Explaining what it is to the goyim ~ *sigh!*
This year, the
8 crazy nights of Chanukah/Hanukkah begin on Dec 4..
Itchy Kadoozy Show ~ What's Your Favorite Part of Hanukkah?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXKptAeV7S4
A cute li'l Chrismukkah ditty
http://www.youtube.com/jpv91
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I just may hold off posting anything tomorrow,
seeing as it's that miserable anniversary.
That is all. Shalom!
Dec. 7th, 2007 @ 09:58 pm
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I have caught the cold/flu/whatever it is
that Stephy had been recovering from
for the past 3 weeks.
It's awful.
Do not want.
Fortunately, I had saved a post for today.
( I heard you call me a 'shabbos goy' to Mr Brian...what does that mean, Mr Harry? )
Dec. 1st, 2007 @ 04:46 pm
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Not because I'm overly paranoid, but to avoid any potential unpleasantness ~ well, slap me and call me a little bit paranoid, then ~ in any case, I do not wish for Jack Chick's webmaster to trace me back as a hostile linked site.
So please copy & paste the following url into your browser's address space to read the comic "Chick Tract" ~ Where's Rabbi Waxman? ~ it's way beyond ridiculous wuddafookery, but those coulterfundie Xians really do get off on it:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0014/0014_01.asp
NOW, have patience and read the following excerpt from an outstanding sermon by Rabbi Steven Fuchs ~ it serves as a brilliant answer to Chick's creepy blatherings:
...And so, my hope: Let us live side by side in mutual respect and peace. Mutual respect precludes belittling the integrity of our religion as it is. If Jesus brings fulfillment and satisfaction and meaning in life to Christians, I say it again, I am happy for them. But Jesus plays no role, no role whatsoever in the religious thinking of the Jew.
( You see, there are three major claims which Christians make for Jesus )
Rabbi Fuchs SO wins this one.
Read his entire sermon here
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"I believe that eating pork makes people stupid!" XD
- DAVID STEINBERG
(an eppylover fave filmmaker/comedian)
Nov. 24th, 2007 @ 12:08 am
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Didn't get online today, but am poking in here for just a sec
because I failed to do da shmooze last week.
Chanukah is coming.
♥.
Flavors are:
Latke Soda, Apple Sauce Soda, Chocolate Coins Soda and Jelly Doughnut Soda.
Includes:
1 completely functional dreidel.
Of course you know that this item would
never be found anywhere near where I live.
You know that, don't you.
*le sigh*
Nov. 17th, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
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So I missed Shabbos, so sue me. We were otherwise occupied. I've got a good excuse and it's called goyishe kop!
Consequently, because I recently signed up for Vekslblat – The Yiddish World of Michael Wex's monthly e-zine – I'll just nick a little anecdote from his site. I was quite amused by this little incident that happened to him recently ~
From website The Yiddish World of Michael Wex
"Rabbi! Rabbi!" It's the same tone of voice that calls out "Medic!" in war movies.
"I'm not a rabbi."
"Fine, don't be a rabbi. Just help me."
( 'Nu? What can I do?' )
by  Michael Wex, author of Born To Kvetch
Oct. 27th, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
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Hopefully, nobody missed my lack of a Shmooze this shabbos (since it is after sundown now, alas), but still I feel the need to provide something.
Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Lennon Done Jewish/Reggae with a touch of Hip Hop I usually disparage almost all covers of Beatles and afterBeatles songs; however, I was able to listen to this one, at least once ~ and even enjoyed it a bit.
Just enough Jamaican influence was injected to offset the
"Oh look, I'm singing a Beatle song, aren't I wonderful!"
feeling I always get from Fabs cover songs and tribute bands.
According to the blurb, Matisyahu is offering his fans a download of "Watching The Wheels", a special track he recorded for the Instant Karma album, The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur.
Just their way of thanking you for being such great fans and supporters of Matisyahu, along with bringing as much attention as possible to this most worthy cause.
CLICK HERE for the Matisyahu page where you can nick "Watching The Wheels" for free.
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EDIT: SORRY YOUTUBE CENSORED THE BELOW VID ~ I HAVE REDIRECTED THE LINK TO ANOTHER SOURCE THAT ENJOYS MORE FREEDOM ~ (so far)
Hilarity Ensuing: Andy Samberg Hearts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 
Quote from YouTube user lifeisokay ~
"Not only is this hysterical, but it's also one of the most genuinely infectious melodies to ever couch homosexually-based political satire.
"Incidentally, anyone who doesn't understand why a Jewish comedian would write a mock homosexual love song to someone who denies both the existence of the Holocaust AND the presence of gays in his country is terribly and depressingly dense."
The eppylover cannot agree more. But this vid is still so very WTF!
Spread the Eppy Love
~*~ ♥ ~*~
Add Brian Epstein to YOUR list of
LiveJournal Interests
Oct. 20th, 2007 @ 07:20 pm
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The Epstein family
attorney speaks out
Liverpool Echo, Oct 12, 2007
An article by Rex Makin ~
AND THE EPPYLOVER'S COMPLAINTS ABOUT IT ~ Some 40-odd years ago my next-door-neighbour Brian Epstein called in to see me with regard to the ascent of the Beatles. ( He told me... )
For those who would wish to participate in last week's Google assault on the results for the search term "Jew" ~ but don't quite know how to create the links ~ I shall try to make it easier, below.
( instructions behind this cut )
Then paste it into a new post window and enter it. It should end up looking like this:
jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew
In my next incarnation, I believe I shall add both Mel Brooks, jew and Yakov Smirnoff, jew.
Just remember three things so Google can catch it:
1. Make sure it's not behind an LJ-cut,
2. Make sure it's not in a friends-only post, and
3. It won't work if you have blocked search engines in your LJ preferences.
If you do choose to include this little thingy in a post, many thanks from those of us who are trying to spread it around! XD
Oct. 13th, 2007 @ 07:07 pm
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As most of my flisters should know by now, I don't do memes/questionnaires. It's perfectly lovely if you enjoy that sort of thing (and please don't defriend me for ignoring you), but it's a waste of time to "tag" me.
The following, however, I cannot consider a meme, even though we want to try our best to "virus" it throughout the innertubes. So if you want to go along with it, please do!
#==#==#==#==#==#
 This is a real hoot:
( Recently, a member of the weirdjews community requested that everyone sign a petition... )
~ AND NOW ~
I say all the above to show you this whimsically bright brainstorm from soleklypse ~ Ahhh, I do heart comedians! Click this link to read his post on his LJ ~ Jew.
( Or, click this cut to read his post on my LJ )
So it should look something like this: jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew.
Get it?
~ ~ ~
Now, y'know I can NOT resist
adding my own little eppylinkers,
even though my sweet fehgeleh fella
wasn't a comedian
(in the PUBLIC eye, that is) ~ jew, jew
...and how about Mel Brooks, Super-Jew ?  ♥
Oct. 5th, 2007 @ 09:29 pm
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I'm feeling terribly overwhelmed by life right now ~ so please forgive me if I haven't touched base with you on the many and various avenues of Eppiliciousness we are immersed within. At this particular point I almost feel like I'm drowning in it ~ so Stephy and I are taking a little break to go wandering at the local mall.
*Christine covers her face in dire humiliation regarding such a lame yuppie endeavor, yet mentally salivates at the thought of the Barnes & Noble therein*
Meanwhile, a quickie for the Shabbos ~ a fascinating article, even though it's slightly late for Yom Kippur:
STANDING UP FOR THE YOM KIPPUR CHICKENS
( What happens when a ritual designed to remove sin might itself generate sin? )
In conclusion, remember the wise words of the world's greatest living philosopher, George Carlin:
"Chickens are decent people!
Sep. 29th, 2007 @ 04:53 pm
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( Read more... )
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May you be sealed for a good year
in the Book of Life
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Sep. 22nd, 2007 @ 03:19 pm
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