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I need to be in that bed right now. Preferably with you.
ReplyDeleteI would like to be in that bed too for the rest of my days. But preferably alone...sorry girls.
ReplyDeleteGunner, strangers are going to start thinking we've got big fat leeesbian crushes on each other (in Mean Girls' voice), when really we both just like to sleep. And we miss each other.
ReplyDeleteGeorgie, rude.