Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 30, 2021

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    oh, definitely cannot forget the pay; good point, Leslie

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    Brdshtt Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Sooooo, who died and left you boss?

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    ImDaRealAni  over 3 years ago

    Pay NULL.

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    AnyFace  over 3 years ago

    Cash would be nice. ✨

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    Willow Mt Lyon  over 3 years ago

    Kinda bossy.

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    Cheapskate0  over 3 years ago

    Definite stereotyping Tiffany here.

    At least Les is playing his part.

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    Ahuehuete  over 3 years ago

    Conflict of interest?

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    R.W.Singer -SF  over 3 years ago

    Even given no rent, and let’s just exclude food costs for fun, at $300 I don’t think she can cover wages. I have deep concerns about this venture.

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    Brdshtt Premium Member over 3 years ago

    As much as I hate to say it, Les is the only realist there.

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    Lord Flatulence Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “Is it like Tiff as nails?” What the heck does that mean?

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    Rhetorical_Question   over 3 years ago

    Volunteers step forward! What an experience for the team! The pay is admiration.

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    Rhetorical_Question   over 3 years ago

    Is Leslie Knox still icky?

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    notbornyesterday  over 3 years ago

    Sorry, Tiff, but you’re fired

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    B UTTONS  over 3 years ago

    Tiffany is poaching the entire staff of her current employer?

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    lvlax  over 3 years ago

    The impending failure of Tiffany’s venture is gonna hit her hard. The guys aren’t going to work for free and don’t they already have a job at The Fuse? For someone living in a mansion, It’s weird to see her so THRILLED for a lousy $300 payday.

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    ronaldspence  over 3 years ago

    Tiff, do you have a plan or are you making this up as you go along? I know you have the brains to do it and have the gumption but lots of ventures fail for lack of planning…

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    Don Draper  over 3 years ago

    I wonder if Tiffany is aware of health/safety requirements for food service and zoning laws against running such a business in a residence? However, points for Les to have the good sense to ask for compensation.

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    Airman  over 3 years ago

    This strip has been like driving on black ice: you don’t know where you’re going.

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    mawa14 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Mr. Gray: “Who’s left to staff The Fuse and Cafe Kablooie?”

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    Caldonia  over 3 years ago

    It’s a home business now? Instead of an assignment? Well, let’s drop out of school, I guess. (May not be such a bad idea. Mooni Uni has strange ideas, when it comes to course work.)

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    capricorn9th  over 3 years ago

    Les asked the best question as not to let Tiff run shod over them, taking advantage of them.

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    Mordock999 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Welcome to “Socialism,” Les.

    And “nice” of Tiffany to consult first Nancy on “borrowing” the Fuse staff.

    But on the bright side, Tara, Bernice, and Luann?

    Ladies there’s about to be at least three new job openings at the Fuse.

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    lvlax  over 3 years ago

    Who died and left Tiffany Queen??

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 3 years ago

    I’ll practice my jr. high French……….“Wee”……… Ok, that about covers it. Let’s go.

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    beb01  over 3 years ago

    I thought TJ was part or full owner of Club Kablooey so I wonder what he plans to do, cooking for a private dinner when he should be cooking for Cafe Kablooey. He also should have asked Tiffany about licensing, zoning variances, etc. All the little things that he (TJ) had to deal with setting up his food truck and Cafe Kablooey. There is a Shannonisque level of magical thinking about all just like he prior Tara arc.

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    Vilyehm  over 3 years ago

    Tiffany considers $300 to be up front money.

    She’ll need another $200 for matching panties.

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    Brdshtt Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This little piggy went to the market,

    This little piggy stayed home.

    This little piggy had roast beef,

    This little piggy had none.

    And Ox went wee, wee, wee all the way home.

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    kenhense  over 3 years ago

    Wow – This is a cartoon – but hard to believe EVEN Tiffany would direct the cafe employees to her dinner – without asking their availability and letting them know what’s in it for them.

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    kenhense  over 3 years ago

    Today’s premise requires a giant leap o’ faith – but what the hell – hilarity will ensue.

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    Johnnyrico  over 3 years ago

    Les has the real question here… and as you may recall, Tiff was stripped of her “Miss Chamber of Commerce” title and honors for running her little “Meals For Firefighters” scam, of which TJ was a part..

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    lavatube  over 3 years ago

    I have a feeling Tiff is going to learn that $300 doesn’t go very far when you have to pay a half dozen people to cook/serve and rent decorations.

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    PeterPirate  over 3 years ago

    I’m glad that Tiffany appears to have won the battle over the Pirates of the Caribbean.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Les is asking the important question. Tiffany can’t pay 3 people enough for their work. Plus, formal attire means no pirates… This idea is increasingly becoming a great chance for Tiffany to learn from her mistakes. I hope she will ask Gunther if he thinks Bets will like this.

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    Denver Reader Premium Member over 3 years ago

    When did Tiff get permits and health department approvals, etc.?

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    luann1212  over 3 years ago

    Hilarity will ensue in the end, as it’s doing now but It is not a good idea for Tiffany to push for Tres Tres, when her customer, Bets, made it clear that is not what is wanted. On the low money and resources it occurs to me this is Easter week, and the loaves and the fishes story might be metaphorical, stretch I admit. But somehow I think it will come off.

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    Purple People Eater  over 3 years ago

    Paying? Who said anything about paying?

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    drewpamon  over 3 years ago

    Isn’t the servant staff back now that Ann is gone? They’re already paid so it’d be a free expense for Tiffany

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    Mr. Organization  over 3 years ago

    I’d like to see Tiff’s budgeting this event. I don’t think she’ll realize as large a profit as she expects.

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    sueb1863  over 3 years ago

    Elegant? What happened to pirates? Is she going to put together the classy dinner and Bets is going to come in and flip her lid because it’s not pirates?

    Before TJ plans the menu, shouldn’t Tiffany tell him she has a very limited ingredient list?

    And Les, forget wages. Tiffany’s only making $300 on this which is going to go to the food and staging.

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    ChristopherLyons  over 3 years ago

    Les asks the right question (as sometimes happens). 300 dollars isn’t nearly enough to pay for all this. Now Tiff has (to her credit) done good networking, made real friendships—but she still has a tendency to take people for granted. Ox has a crush on her, he’ll work for nothing (and nothing is precisely what he’ll get). TJ likes the job she does as waitress, he’ll play along, loves to cook (but he’s got a business to run). Les likes Tiff (in more ways than one), but he’s no Ox, and he wants to know what he’s being paid, which is basically nothing. Just decorating the house the way Bets wants will eat up most of the budget. It’s a good learning experience for Tiff, but definitely not a good earning experience.

    Oh well, let’s see where it goes. I don’t pay to read this strip, and it costs me just ten seconds of my time every morning. For the record, I liked the last storyline better. ;)

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    Salinasong  over 3 years ago

    Wasn’t this was supposed to be a Marketing class assignment?

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    MS72  over 3 years ago

    It’s only one night.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 3 years ago

    If it is that noveau cuisine, food costs should be about 10 bucks as they don’t give you enough food to keep a bird alive.

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    Fiammata  over 3 years ago

    But didn’t Bets want pirates?

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    Call me Ishmael  over 3 years ago

    “And Tiffany said “Let there be commerce! “,And behold, there was commerce! Who knew it was that simple? Why Are we wasting precious moments writing comments? We could be making millions!

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    Twelve Badgers in a Suit Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Usually, when Les talks, I think, “How can you possibly say that without being embarrassed?” But, today, I’m just wondering why he’s the only one saying that.

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    mjb515  over 3 years ago

    Asking her boss to moonlight for her is an interesting move.

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    Droptma Styx  over 3 years ago

    Thank you, Les, for that cold splash of economic reality.

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    kingbrlee Premium Member over 3 years ago

    At this speed, Bets and Gunther will be having dinner by this Saturday’s strip.

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    ctolson  over 3 years ago

    Once again Tiff leaps before she looks. Don’t think the DeGroot’s are going to appreciate her commandeering the staff. And since TJ is the co-owner of the Fuse, how does he figure he can just close it and cook for Tiff.

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    tutibug5  over 3 years ago

    Seven characters already for this story. Maybe Luann could sing love songs.

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    Tom_Tildrum  over 3 years ago

    This is why we snarl. There are good characters in this strip, people we might care about. But the plotting is just so slapdash and unrealistic that it makes them all just look like fools.

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    Ellis97  over 3 years ago

    You really should pay your employees in addition to making profits.

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    EasyEight  over 3 years ago

    I always had the impression that G&K wrote TJ as the kitchen/wait staff assistant supervisor, translation > $25/hour plus a share of the tips. More weird proof G&K have not worked a regular job in decades.

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    Michael G.  over 3 years ago

    I’m wit’ Les.

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    Tyge  over 3 years ago

    Frank, Nancy and Tiffany are going to run into good ole American Market Dynamics. Competition for labor. Maybe Frank and Nancy will have to add a Non-Competition Clause to their employee handbook.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “How much you paying?”

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 3 years ago

    Only Les is thinking clearly on this. Go figure.

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    Tyge  over 3 years ago

    Folks are asking why this group would even consider working this “booking.” Well!

    TJ wants to get his hands on the McKitchen. Ox is in love with Tiffany. Only Les is asking for monetary compensation. After all, he has a prior oral contract with Tiffany to split tips from the KK.

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    Homeboy1865  over 3 years ago

    Does Tiffany have these guys wrapped around her little finger?

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    linus82  over 3 years ago

    Creo que sería más fácil recontratar al personal que fué despedido por Ann Eiffel para que vuelva a trabajar en la mansión Farrell, y que ellos ayuden en el proyecto de Tiffany a cambio de un bono extra.

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    thepinkbaroness  over 3 years ago

    “Wee”

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    YorkGirl  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Good to see Tiffany in a planning, take charge mode about her “assignment”. Les, though, provides a reality check with one question. The business plan?? If she goes forward with the business, how can the staff split their time and will they want to? I wonder if Bets is back at the mansion redecorating?! :-o

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Les is apparently the only practical one

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    Mayor Snorkum  over 3 years ago

    So now Tiffany the waitress is giving orders to her coworkers AND her boss, who seems to be okay with it? Highly unlikely, as is the possibility of success of Tiff’s ill-conceived enterprise. And Les is going to be sous-chef? Sure he is, in a pig’s eye.

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    percheronhitch6  over 3 years ago

    What could possibly go wrong?

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    tremaine53  over 3 years ago

    Yeah, let’s just all bail at once on Mr. and Mrs. DeGroot at The Fuse! They won’t mind, because… Pfffffft! It’s TIFFANY!

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    Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 3 years ago

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    Tiffany has gone off the deep end….. in a way far more “loony” and “crazy” than the very best of any episode of any of Lucile Ball’s many famous television programs:

    1. This is supposed to be her CLASSROOM ASSIGNMENT!

    2. Just because Bets is foolish enough to pay $300 to eat dinner at Tiffany’s McMansion (and is brazen enough to demand it to be pirate themed to boot) does not mean this is going to be any sort of long-term, lucrative business venture for Tiffany to engage in.

    3. Of course, there is also the factor of the owner- (Tom Ferell)-of-the-McMansion’s opinions on the matter…. if he is ever aware enough that something is going on.

    4. I could understand Tiffany trying to cajole her “The Fuse” friends into helping her do this “non-gratis” as a class assignment, but as a business venture?!?!?

    The above makes today’s scene just ludicrous. So, what could be afoot?

    A. Maybe…. Annie Eiffel will somehow catch wind of whatever this “themed dinner” turns out to be, and it gets Tiffany in hot water and somehow Annie is redeemed in some fashion in Tom “Cat” Ferrell’s eyes (or loins, at least)?

    B. Maybe TJ will be the chef and the whole McMansion will go “kablooee” in the process….. forcing Tiffany, Tara, Luann, and Bernice to all reach the simultaneous conclusion that they want to all become “roomies” and they find some amazing four bedroom apartment exactly half way between Pitt CC and Mooney U.

    C. Bets and “Gun” come and eat and do a “social networking” profile of the experience, and great hoards of folks nationwide begin to cluster around the McMansion and TJ becomes the next Gordon Ramsey.

    Hmm.

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    DG  over 3 years ago

    So for pirate decorations, food and service Tiff will be spending abou 600 to make 300.

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    Joe1962  over 3 years ago

    There my Les always asking were is the money.

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    reedkomicks Premium Member over 3 years ago

    What ever else is going on in this story line, it is all worth it because of Ox’s muttering.

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    comic reader 22  over 3 years ago

    Good for you Les! That’s the first thing I would have asked. Surprised at TJ though, he’s older and should know this is going to be a huge conflict of interest for him. When are they going to do this dinner? When are the Fuse and Cafe Kablooey not open that would coincide with a dinner party? I hope Tiffany can afford the items from his “menu”.

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    Ukko wilko  over 3 years ago

    Les asked the right question.

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    Schrodinger's Dog  over 3 years ago

    Gunther is allergic to Leeks.

    :-/

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    eladee AKA Wally  over 3 years ago

    Tiffany is being pretty demanding. She’s lucky everyone seems to want to help her and is available to help her on short notice. But will Les dress as a pirate?

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    BJShipley1  over 3 years ago

    The writing of this arc, once you compare it to the previous arc of Tara sleeping in the Fuse, has led to a lose-lose situation here. If Tiffany is able to poach all of Frank’s employees away and nothing negative results, it just establishes that he is the worst business owner in the world. But if she does get in trouble for it, it just shows that her and Luann are the same in every way except for consequences. It reinforces the idea that Luann can do whatever she wants with no negative result, while Tiffany does the same kind of thing yet gets treated like a punching bag for it.

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    bakana  over 3 years ago

    There used to be an upscale place near Disney in Florida called Arthur’s 27.

    They were on the 27th floor of one of the hotels and had only 27 tables in the dining room.

    They only seated One Party at each table each Night. Once your party sat down, the table was theirs until Closing time. I was told that the average dinner tab was around $100 per person, Before you added on Booze & Wine charges.

    I was never willing to plan for a fancy dinner by making reservations 2 months or more ahead of time.

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    Gordo4ever  over 3 years ago

    Let’s see how “formal attire” works for the “Pirates” theme… unless Bets and Tiffany have altered the plan.

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    StoicLion1973  over 3 years ago

    I don’t think Tiff will make much of a profit from this endeavor. Bets will pay $300 to Tiff to host supply a meal for 2 in an elegant, intimate setting. Assuming 4-staffers are paid $15 per hour for 3-hours of work (1 hour for set up/ cooking, 1 hour for Bets & Gunther to eat and 1 hour to clean-up) and $50 for the meal (including what Dez donates), the setting is provided free at Tiff’s house (candles, napkins, fancy plates, etc.), then Tiff’s total costs are about $230 for the entire evening. That’s $70 in profit or about 23.3% profit margin.

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    Tom Eisenmenger  over 3 years ago

    Ah, Les. Always the pragmatic one!

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    Frank Farkel Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I see Ann Eiffel reappearing soon.

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago

    One booking does not a business make!

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    ironbrigade1861  over 3 years ago

    As long as someone else does the work.

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    PhoenixHocking  over 3 years ago

    You better check on the laws and licensing requirements before your business goes bye-bye before it ever gets started.

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    kittysquared Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Tiff needs to let go of this as a business venture and see it as a one-off for her assignment. All sorts of WTF going on here: siphoning off The Fuse crew, Tiff thinking $300 will cover all expenses AND make a profit, Tiff being excited about $300.

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    Terminal Frost Premium Member over 3 years ago

    @Brdshtt I posted that recipe to you in yesterday’s stream

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    Sisyphos  over 3 years ago

    Very characteristic responses by each of the Tiffany Crew! I am in particular a fan of Oxford, so I like his “junior high French” wee….

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    ct0760  over 3 years ago

    So shes gonna steal all of the staff and put Degroots parents out of business?

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Sorry, we already have jobs

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    Rose686  about 1 year ago

    Seductive

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