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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2022-12-30 08:02 am

My mother told me once

that sometimes, after having sex with my dad, she'd look around and idly say something like "Did you know that you can make 200 words out of the letters in the word 'sustained'?"

She just made up the numbers, she assured me.

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[personal profile] senmut 2022-12-30 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
+bursts into laughter+
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[personal profile] adafrog 2022-12-30 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
lol