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MIButterfly

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34. When I was 17 or so, I had a ticket for Blood, Sweat and Tears

Reply to some_of_us_are_sane (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2026, 10:31 PM

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that I had saved up for for weeks with my pittance of an allowance, which was more often than not withheld from me for some imagined infraction or another. On the night of the concert, the evil step-father refused to drive me because he was an asshole of gigantic proportions. I knew better than to ask my mother because there would be hell to pay from him and she wouldn't have done it anyway.

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