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multigraincracker

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3. That's the year I smoked my first joint.

Reply to marble falls (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 14, 2021, 04:44 PM

Oct 2021

Didn't feel a thing from it. Then a year later I tried some out in LA and WOW! Had some problems with grades and didn't find out why until many years later when a shrink told me I had ADD. He told me to go back to college and sit in the front row. I did and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Graduating, with honors from rehab too.

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