Friends in high places will let us down again
PICTURE this. You are back in school in a class of say, I don’t know, 28 children.
You are not one of the big kids. No, in fact you are one of the smallest kids in the class.
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You are not one of the big kids. No, in fact you are one of the smallest kids in the class.
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