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They are terrified Blanche, they are!

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and Merry meet again!

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The very second they saw the piles of cash.

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Shhh!

Just keep telling them that it means money for farmers, pharmaceutical companies, and especially banks. Plus any legislator who gets their foot in the door early might grow with the industry.

Don't tell them about the relaxed attitude, introspection, playfulness, and creativity that is often encouraged.

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"*I* have real cigarettes! Wait, why are you laughing?"

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Naturellement!

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I wish my Dad had smoked a joint or two. He got really mean in his old age.

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I used to live with a nice person and the kids, the significant other of this person was a Chicago cop. Of course this nice person was the cop's sidepiece, need you ask? Anyway, the cop was a fairly nice person who loved to tell cop stories. You got the cop talking about "not nice things we do to people" or just being a cop in general, and the info would flow. Just fucking up someone's day was enjoyable, and a game, especially if they were poor or homeless wypipo, blahs, or messicans.

One interesting(at the time, I was naive) tidbit the cop told me was that they used to randomly target stop n' cops, take all the dope and money, and charge them with having possessed the minimum that would put the arrestee in jail for a bit. That evidence was taken into the station. The remaining amounts of drugs and money seized were pocketed and/or sold and used, by the cops. I had to remove any identifying information.

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Dang, I know someone who I haven't seen here in a while, Serai, who would have a gif for that.

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Beam me up, mon.

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*groans appreciatively*

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Glass blowing has been around for a long time.

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yeah, there's that...

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She Was Warned, Yet She Persisted (tm)

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