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JohnnyRingo

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Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:18 AM

Thursday

hahaha
I. sorry, get called Boomer so much I couldn't resist.

How old am I? I took my kids to see it as a first run at the theater. I had seen nothing like it to that date.

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