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hollysmom

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1. I always found him mysogynistic
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 09:14 PM
Dec 2014

his women were young and pretty and would sleep with the hero or old or ugly and either would not sleep with the hero or the hero would not choose her and she acted out because of that. I think I read a couple of books and threw them out in disgust and would never buy another. I have better things to spend money on someone who hated or disrespected me. I was friends with men I never slept with and we respected each other as friends and colleagues.

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