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28 May 2012
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. CAROLE LOMBARD
GABOUREY SIDIBE
Feminéma 
29 May 2012 at 1:32 am
I think too of an old Roseanne Barr gag: “I’ll clean the house when Sears makes a vacuum cleaner I can ride!” BROOM POWER.