
Is it wrong to want to steal another mans sausage?
I pride myself that I have never stolen anything in my whole life. But every morning as I walk my daughter to daycare I pass a house and see sausages just hanging outside…
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I pride myself that I have never stolen anything in my whole life. But every morning as I walk my daughter to daycare I pass a house and see sausages just hanging outside…
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