Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to you! Brrrr….only 29 here this morning and cloudy. Forecast says it should clear off and turn sunny later today. Snow showers predicted tomorrow morning, light snow/wind on Saturday. Icing/heavier snow in eastern NE.
I left tuna out last night, altho I wasn’t sure whether Wheezer would be able to eat it if it froze…..but the bowl was empty this morning so, clearly, he managed!
his statement IS racist and he doesn’t even realize it. If you incarcerate every CRIMINAL (regardless of race) then crime/violence will go down. If you let “certain” criminals off easy? they’ll repeat it. So who exactly is committing all the violence Mayor?
The ages line up well with this LinkedIn profile. If this is the same person — absolutely nobody should let go of the USAID connection! This person spent all his life working for US NGOs … and interned the Democrat's version of CIA pic.twitter.com/qT3yEiHB6r
Just The News: “The gunman who is alleged to have ambushed and wounded two National Guard troops near the White House worked with CIA-backed paramilitary units during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Director John Ratcliffe revealed Thursday.
Officials have identified the alleged suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, and said the Afghan national was let into the United States by the Biden administration in August 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a rushed evacuation operation later criticized for failing to properly vet those brought into the country.
“In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” Ratcliffe said in a statement distributed to news media.
“The individual—and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here,” the director added. “Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration’s catastrophic failures.”
Officials said the alleged gunman worked with several U.S. agencies during the war, including a CIA-backed paramilitary unit in Kandahar that fought the Taliban.”
Just The News: “The Trump administration on Wednesday night paused all immigration processing for Afghan nationals after a man who entered the U.S. from Afghanistan was arrested for the ambush shootings that critically wounded two National Guard troops near the White House.
“Processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced.
The decision came hours after authorities identified the man who shot two Guardsmen as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, and said he entered the United States in 2021 under a Biden-era initiative called Operation Allies Welcome.
President Donald Trump condemned the shooting and blamed his predecessor Joe Biden. “We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country,” the president said.”
Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻 @pepesgrandma 15h ‼️Breaking! At least five of the seditious six were recruited and trained for office by “New Politics”. Maybe even all six! (Jason Crow and SIX other Congress members are involved in recruitment.)
“New Politics is a purpose-built political talent agency and campaign accelerator that recruits, trains, and develops leaders with service backgrounds to transform our politics.”
They even recruit from Intelligence agencies too.
Not even two months before the Military Coup narrative was started, (I’ll explain later) New Politics got a sudden infusion of twenty million dollars! More money than they’ve seen in eight years of operations! Where did this come from?
Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., who will co-chair the effort, said the country is “at a crisis moment in political leadership” and ex-federal workers are among potential recruits.
Ryan is co-chairing the group’s new recruitment effort, called “The Next Mission” and powered by $20 million, which will aim to recruit 5,000 candidates up and down the ballot over the next four years.
More than 30 elected officials are participating in the New Politics recruitment committee, including ➡️SIX OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS⬅️who have worked with the group in the past. Among them is Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who is also co-chairing recruitment efforts for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
EMILY CHERNIACK is the founder and executive director
Here’s the five they have listed and I archived all their pages
Elissa Slotkin Jason Crow Chris Deluzio Maggie Goodlander Chrissy Houlahan
Missing but could be one of the six others: Mark Kelly
Stay tuned it’s gonna get better! Additional sources to follow.
“The Real First Thanksgiving Happened In Virginia Two Years Before The Pilgrims — It was English settlers in Virginia, not Pilgrims in New England, who observed America’s first Thanksgiving.”
The Federalist, By: Emily Pinette and Jerry M. Roper, November 27, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “History rides the currents of Virginia’s James River. America’s oldest settlements and cities, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond, were fed by her waters and prospered on her banks. Tucked away between these colonial American cities is the stately red brick Georgian manor house of Berkeley Plantation, the family home of Founding Father Benjamin Harrison and birthplace of President William Henry Harrison. During the Civil War, the military bugle call Taps was composed at Berkeley Plantation and first played for the Union troops quartered there.
But Berkeley Plantation’s history goes back much further. It was also the site — in 1619 — of America’s first Thanksgiving, nearly two years before the Pilgrims in New England held their more famous and celebrated feast. What would become Berkeley Plantation was a tract of land, given by England’s King James I to a group of settlers led by Captain John Woodlief. Their sponsor, the Berkeley Company, directed the settlers to offer a holy “day of Thanksgiving to the Almighty God” to mark their arrival in the new world. So on Dec. 4, 1619, the settlers held a prayer service to mark the event. The anniversary of this arrival was celebrated each year, until an Indian attack brought the Berkeley settlement to an end.
In modern times, since 1958, Berkeley Plantation has held a Thanksgiving festival on the first weekend in November to remind the nation that it was English settlers in Virginia, not Pilgrims in New England, who observed America’s first Thanksgiving.
Whether in Virginia or New England, the impetus for Thanksgiving was the same, which was to acknowledge the providence of God for the settlers’ safe passage to America and thank Him for sustaining their lives in this rugged new land. However, the way Thanksgiving was offered differed. The Pilgrims held a celebratory feast, while the English settlers in Virginia convened a solemn service of prayer.
Thanksgiving is an act of humility. It is an acknowledgment that there are things in life we cannot control, but that there is an omnipotent God who governs them. In gratitude, those 1619 settlers humbled themselves in prayer, thanking the Almighty for His blessings. Not only did they look back at their past with gratitude, they looked forward to the future with the courage that comes from trusting the providence of God. That courage animated their decision to set sail from England and build a new life in the New World.
These virtues and others were deeply rooted in the settlers’ Christian faith. They understood the Christian calling to imitate the attributes of God, such as those that theologian A.W. Tozer highlighted in his book, The Knowledge of the Holy: wisdom, faithfulness, goodness, justice, mercy, grace, and love. Such virtues were the foundation for the experiment in self-government conducted in Berkeley, Plymouth, and all around the American colonies.
Our Founding Fathers understood that the constitutional republic that they proposed required a virtuous citizenry. In his presidential Farewell Address, George Washington wrote, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” Patrick Henry, sometime after the Revolutionary War, wrote on the back of his personal copy of his Stamp Act Resolves of 1765 his thoughts on the war and the events leading up to it. He concluded his reflections by looking to the future of the nation and wrote, “Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others.”
A long grassy lawn separates Berkeley’s manor house from the James River. So much of what is written into the American story happened on or near this lawn. If she could speak, what important message about the nation would this Georgian mansion deliver to 21st-century Americans?
Seek and practice virtue in all of life, beginning with humility. It is the highest virtue, because just as all vices proceed from the sin of pride, all virtues begin with humility. Second is courage, for it is needed to live a virtuous life. Those virtues are the legacy of America’s first Thanksgiving.”
I’m back….it was a pleasant day but it also highlighted the differences between myself and Mom. A big part is that I have satellite TV whereas she only has local stations and public TV so we watch different things. One way in which we are more alike is that she has a porch “Wheezer,” too. Also a gray tabby but hers is long-haired and friendlier. He/she came and jumped up on the door looking for food – she feeds him/her every day! LOL – and our reading, altho she generally likes a different subject matter. I took 3 books to her and brought home 6 paperbacks!
We both enjoyed ourselves and I gave her a check for $100 for her Xmas gift this year. She had some things she wanted to get at the store that were on sale – for example, small poinsettia plants for 5 of her friends – and was worried she wouldn’t have enough money in her account. There were 5 or 6 items on her list and they were all things for other people. She has a big heart!
Bright and sunny w/a temp of 59 at the moment….snow is predicted tomorrow into the week-end. Not a lot of accumulation, thankfully.
Apparently, neither one of the 2 has died….at least as of 4:37 yesterday….
Kash Patel CONFIRMS the National Guard Soldiers are ALIVE and in Critical Condition Earlier reports from the West Virginia governor said both had died. Hard to know what to believe pic.twitter.com/UpyEpeosLq
🔥 Hong Kong High-Rise Fire — At Least 65 Dead, Hundreds Missing
Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades — high-rise blocks engulfed, mass casualties, grim recovery expected. Survivors ask the only question that matters: How was this allowed to happen? Negligence + corruption = disaster. The trend continues globally…
“Economic Security Illinois Director Sarah Saheb described Cook County’s guaranteed basic income pilot as a “historic success” and said that when the federal government was “stepping back from its responsibilities to working families, Cook County is leading the way to ensure people can afford basic necessities.”
As I recall, they were in trouble over federal covid funds and still can’t balance the budget…
“Honest to god there must be something in the water out there in LaLaLand…
That is Will Smith’s son Jaden, who arrived at the Grammys 2025 with his sister Willow Smith (who’s a bit of a babe, actually) and an all-black turreted mansion headpiece atop his head, framing his face.
Annette Bening and Warren Beatty’s daughter, now named Stephen Ira, came out as a trans man at age 20 back in 2012.
Cher’s son Chaz Bono is one of the most high-profile trans children of celebrities out there, from appearing with his parents on The Sonny & Cher Show as a female child to documenting his transition in the Emmy-nominated 2011 documentary ‘Becoming Chaz.’
No explanation necessary for this one, really…
The air out there certainly is rarified. There are more than a few dozen kids of famous parents who ‘grow up in the wrong body’ as they like to say. Others are just fuckin’ weird. It’s not just LA, though. One of Deniro’s kids in Manhattan not only became a girl, he became a black girl to boot. It boggles the mind…”
Sew Colorful 
Morning All!
I plum forgot to schedule this one…lol…oh well. It’s here now.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to you! Brrrr….only 29 here this morning and cloudy. Forecast says it should clear off and turn sunny later today. Snow showers predicted tomorrow morning, light snow/wind on Saturday. Icing/heavier snow in eastern NE.
I left tuna out last night, altho I wasn’t sure whether Wheezer would be able to eat it if it froze…..but the bowl was empty this morning so, clearly, he managed!
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Happy Thanksgiving Filly!
Do you have far to go today? I hope the weather remains good for you!!!
we had a brief dusting overnight–mostly on the deck.
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Nah – only about 40 miles.
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And why am I NOT surprised?!?!
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more info coming out–true or not? he worked with the cia…not surprising either.
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his statement IS racist and he doesn’t even realize it. If you incarcerate every CRIMINAL (regardless of race) then crime/violence will go down. If you let “certain” criminals off easy? they’ll repeat it. So who exactly is committing all the violence Mayor?
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Just The News: “The gunman who is alleged to have ambushed and wounded two National Guard troops near the White House worked with CIA-backed paramilitary units during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Director John Ratcliffe revealed Thursday.
Officials have identified the alleged suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, and said the Afghan national was let into the United States by the Biden administration in August 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a rushed evacuation operation later criticized for failing to properly vet those brought into the country.
“In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” Ratcliffe said in a statement distributed to news media.
“The individual—and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here,” the director added. “Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration’s catastrophic failures.”
Officials said the alleged gunman worked with several U.S. agencies during the war, including a CIA-backed paramilitary unit in Kandahar that fought the Taliban.”
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i think we need to do a complete reversal of all immigration. chuck erbody out and make them reapply!
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Excellent idea!
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Just The News: “The Trump administration on Wednesday night paused all immigration processing for Afghan nationals after a man who entered the U.S. from Afghanistan was arrested for the ambush shootings that critically wounded two National Guard troops near the White House.
“Processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced.
The decision came hours after authorities identified the man who shot two Guardsmen as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, and said he entered the United States in 2021 under a Biden-era initiative called Operation Allies Welcome.
President Donald Trump condemned the shooting and blamed his predecessor Joe Biden. “We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country,” the president said.”
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Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻
@pepesgrandma
15h
‼️Breaking! At least five of the seditious six were recruited and trained for office by “New Politics”. Maybe even all six! (Jason Crow and SIX other Congress members are involved in recruitment.)
“New Politics is a purpose-built political talent agency and campaign accelerator that recruits, trains, and develops leaders with service backgrounds to transform our politics.”
They even recruit from
Intelligence agencies too.
Not even two months before the Military Coup narrative was started, (I’ll explain later) New Politics got a sudden infusion of twenty million dollars! More money than they’ve seen in eight years of operations! Where did this come from?
Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., who will co-chair the effort, said the country is “at a crisis moment in political leadership” and ex-federal workers are among potential recruits.
Ryan is co-chairing the group’s new recruitment effort, called “The Next Mission” and powered by $20 million, which will aim to recruit 5,000 candidates up and down the ballot over the next four years.
More than 30 elected officials are participating in the New Politics recruitment committee, including ➡️SIX OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS⬅️who have worked with the group in the past. Among them is Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who is also co-chairing recruitment efforts for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
EMILY CHERNIACK is the founder and executive director
Here’s the five they have listed and I archived all their pages
Elissa Slotkin
Jason Crow
Chris Deluzio
Maggie Goodlander
Chrissy Houlahan
Missing but could be one of the six others:
Mark Kelly
Stay tuned it’s gonna get better! Additional sources to follow.
nbcnews.com/politics/electio…
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“The Real First Thanksgiving Happened In Virginia Two Years Before The Pilgrims — It was English settlers in Virginia, not Pilgrims in New England, who observed America’s first Thanksgiving.”
The Federalist, By: Emily Pinette and Jerry M. Roper, November 27, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “History rides the currents of Virginia’s James River. America’s oldest settlements and cities, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond, were fed by her waters and prospered on her banks. Tucked away between these colonial American cities is the stately red brick Georgian manor house of Berkeley Plantation, the family home of Founding Father Benjamin Harrison and birthplace of President William Henry Harrison. During the Civil War, the military bugle call Taps was composed at Berkeley Plantation and first played for the Union troops quartered there.
But Berkeley Plantation’s history goes back much further. It was also the site — in 1619 — of America’s first Thanksgiving, nearly two years before the Pilgrims in New England held their more famous and celebrated feast. What would become Berkeley Plantation was a tract of land, given by England’s King James I to a group of settlers led by Captain John Woodlief. Their sponsor, the Berkeley Company, directed the settlers to offer a holy “day of Thanksgiving to the Almighty God” to mark their arrival in the new world. So on Dec. 4, 1619, the settlers held a prayer service to mark the event. The anniversary of this arrival was celebrated each year, until an Indian attack brought the Berkeley settlement to an end.
In modern times, since 1958, Berkeley Plantation has held a Thanksgiving festival on the first weekend in November to remind the nation that it was English settlers in Virginia, not Pilgrims in New England, who observed America’s first Thanksgiving.
Whether in Virginia or New England, the impetus for Thanksgiving was the same, which was to acknowledge the providence of God for the settlers’ safe passage to America and thank Him for sustaining their lives in this rugged new land. However, the way Thanksgiving was offered differed. The Pilgrims held a celebratory feast, while the English settlers in Virginia convened a solemn service of prayer.
Thanksgiving is an act of humility. It is an acknowledgment that there are things in life we cannot control, but that there is an omnipotent God who governs them. In gratitude, those 1619 settlers humbled themselves in prayer, thanking the Almighty for His blessings. Not only did they look back at their past with gratitude, they looked forward to the future with the courage that comes from trusting the providence of God. That courage animated their decision to set sail from England and build a new life in the New World.
These virtues and others were deeply rooted in the settlers’ Christian faith. They understood the Christian calling to imitate the attributes of God, such as those that theologian A.W. Tozer highlighted in his book, The Knowledge of the Holy: wisdom, faithfulness, goodness, justice, mercy, grace, and love. Such virtues were the foundation for the experiment in self-government conducted in Berkeley, Plymouth, and all around the American colonies.
Our Founding Fathers understood that the constitutional republic that they proposed required a virtuous citizenry. In his presidential Farewell Address, George Washington wrote, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” Patrick Henry, sometime after the Revolutionary War, wrote on the back of his personal copy of his Stamp Act Resolves of 1765 his thoughts on the war and the events leading up to it. He concluded his reflections by looking to the future of the nation and wrote, “Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others.”
A long grassy lawn separates Berkeley’s manor house from the James River. So much of what is written into the American story happened on or near this lawn. If she could speak, what important message about the nation would this Georgian mansion deliver to 21st-century Americans?
Seek and practice virtue in all of life, beginning with humility. It is the highest virtue, because just as all vices proceed from the sin of pride, all virtues begin with humility. Second is courage, for it is needed to live a virtuous life. Those virtues are the legacy of America’s first Thanksgiving.”
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I’m heading out to Mom’s! Have a good turkey day, Pat!
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YOU TOO!!!!
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I’m back….it was a pleasant day but it also highlighted the differences between myself and Mom. A big part is that I have satellite TV whereas she only has local stations and public TV so we watch different things. One way in which we are more alike is that she has a porch “Wheezer,” too. Also a gray tabby but hers is long-haired and friendlier. He/she came and jumped up on the door looking for food – she feeds him/her every day! LOL – and our reading, altho she generally likes a different subject matter. I took 3 books to her and brought home 6 paperbacks!
We both enjoyed ourselves and I gave her a check for $100 for her Xmas gift this year. She had some things she wanted to get at the store that were on sale – for example, small poinsettia plants for 5 of her friends – and was worried she wouldn’t have enough money in her account. There were 5 or 6 items on her list and they were all things for other people. She has a big heart!
Bright and sunny w/a temp of 59 at the moment….snow is predicted tomorrow into the week-end. Not a lot of accumulation, thankfully.
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sounds like you had a great time!
it’s freaking’ cold here now! with had flurries all day but no accumulation.
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was he triggered?
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Apparently, neither one of the 2 has died….at least as of 4:37 yesterday….
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you’re back! how was your Thanksgiving?
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Very pleasant
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GREAT!
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that’s scary!
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🔥 Hong Kong High-Rise Fire — At Least 65 Dead, Hundreds Missing
Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades — high-rise blocks engulfed, mass casualties, grim recovery expected. Survivors ask the only question that matters: How was this allowed to happen? Negligence + corruption = disaster.
The trend continues globally…
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Aggiegirl
November 27, 2025 5:44 pm
Hang on to your wallets, Illinois:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cook-county-illinois-establishes-permanent-guaranteed-income-program
“Economic Security Illinois Director Sarah Saheb described Cook County’s guaranteed basic income pilot as a “historic success” and said that when the federal government was “stepping back from its responsibilities to working families, Cook County is leading the way to ensure people can afford basic necessities.”
As I recall, they were in trouble over federal covid funds and still can’t balance the budget…
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“Honest to god there must be something in the water out there in LaLaLand…
That is Will Smith’s son Jaden, who arrived at the Grammys 2025 with his sister Willow Smith (who’s a bit of a babe, actually) and an all-black turreted mansion headpiece atop his head, framing his face.
Annette Bening and Warren Beatty’s daughter, now named Stephen Ira, came out as a trans man at age 20 back in 2012.
Cher’s son Chaz Bono is one of the most high-profile trans children of celebrities out there, from appearing with his parents on The Sonny & Cher Show as a female child to documenting his transition in the Emmy-nominated 2011 documentary ‘Becoming Chaz.’
No explanation necessary for this one, really…
The air out there certainly is rarified. There are more than a few dozen kids of famous parents who ‘grow up in the wrong body’ as they like to say. Others are just fuckin’ weird. It’s not just LA, though. One of Deniro’s kids in Manhattan not only became a girl, he became a black girl to boot. It boggles the mind…”
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“Gina Lollobrigida – damn near perfection“
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wow she’s stunning!
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Closeup of the uraeus on the body of King Tutankhamun’s first inner coffin New Kingdom 18th Dynasty Egypt 1332-1323 BC
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whoa–that’s beautiful–the uraeus thing.
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Shapeshifters
Extraordinary Entrances
Showoff!
You’ve been seen
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great pictures!
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the stars are all attention seekers.
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Good Night All!
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Good night!
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Good Night Filly!
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