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Jennifer Aniston didn't want to let kids ruin her
career. Now she's alone and her ex-hubbie is
shacking up with Angelina Jolie, who's so excited to have a family that she adopted two children before her
coup de Brad Pitt's grace: getting pregnant.
What did we learn in this sordid celebrity love triangle?
Well, obviously. Putting family first is the road to eternal happiness. And pregnancy, man, it always wins.
Maybe you think I'm a bit off my rocker. After all, aren't children supposed to be bad for careers? And we all know that the worst thing you can do to a bad relationship is to add children. Maybe the conventional wisdom, here? Maybe it's wrong. After Jennifer picked career over family, she flushed her relationship with eternal master-of-hunkocity, Brad Pitt, to end up skittering around from sort-of-hot man to barely recognizable name like a flat stone skipping across a calm lake. Meanwhile, all the tabloids can wonder about her: is she pregnant? is she pregnant? come on, guys, that's the cause in this Hollywood experiment. Not only that: her movies aren't even doing that well. Some might say, tanking. Some might even say, Jen, it sucks to be you.
And why? 'cause no baby in your belly, lady.
Just look at all those other examples of actresses avec kids succeeding, getting the guy, having the life everyone wants to emulate. Gwyneth Paltrow. Jennifer Garner. Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. Reese Witherspoon. (Ok, maybe NOT Reese Witherspoon.) J.K. Rowling. Even Aniston's best Friend, Courtney Cox-Arquette. She hyphenated her name and just look what happened.
Britney knew it. She found a guy she liked and stole him away from his pregnant woman with promises of her own pregnancy.
But there's hope, Jen! If Britney can do, you can, too. My advice: go after your man. Throw caution, and your career, to the winds. Get pregnant by Brad, and maybe, before little mr/miss spawn of jolie-and-pitt is even born, you'll have him back and get your happy, pregnancy-swollen face on the cover of People. We miss the happy face, Jen.
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1-14-2006 @ 11:22PM
girladvenger said...It ain't gonna happen...yes Angie is pregnant but that is not the only reason why Brad Pitt is with her. First, no matter what you say about Angie, she has a heart of gold, smart and very interesting, sexy, a great lover and want a big family. While the ex is not really all that interested in having a family but is very interested in her career goals in Hollywood, her body, yoga, sun tanning in the nude and hanging out with her tribe.
Now, even substracting the child factor away Brad has hit that and found it boring and unfulfilling so I don't think the ex could win him back from Jolie. She is scared of her and when you are scared of the competition it's over.
Secondly, Brad is totally in love with Angelina Jolie and he has been the one to change the most in this relationship, not the other way around, yes Angie has made major changes in her life by introducing Brad to her children and acknowledging him as their daddy figure but the major changes were made by Brad because I think he was bored and wanted to change the direction of his life.
Now we see a more contented man who is more family orientated and more interested in life...he learning new things and taking challenges in his life, it's the little things, the details that different. Brad seems to be a whole new man who happy to go home to his family. That man was so button down and restrained...and IMO boring and boring to watch.
I'm so glad the Jen era is ovah! Long live Queen Angelina and her consort Prince Bradley.
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1-14-2006 @ 11:30PM
michelle said...WOW!! Who are you to judge? Do YOU REALLY know what happened behind closed doors? Should Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie really be made out to be heroes here? Since when is it OK to "mess around" with other women while you are married? Even if they were not "going all the way" they were sure spending ALOT of time together it sure made it appear they were "together." In my book folks that is cheating. Since when is that something to respect? Putting off pregnancy until later in life seems to be the trend anyway. How do YOU really know what her choices really are? Wouldn't you feel the fool IF it came out she CAN'T have children? THAT IS NOT SAYING SHE CAN'T. I don't even know the women, and you don't either. So who is anyone to speculate. I feel sorry for Jennifer Aniston.
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1-15-2006 @ 1:18AM
girladvenger said...Here we go, another one claiming that Brad and Angie cheated on Jen...Give me a break! Brad and Jen marriage was on the rocks before Brad met Angelina Jolie, so all you bitter people living your life through Jen's pain to make yourself feel better, get over it. Here is a quote from Brad that is on People website: http://people.aol.com/people/galleries/0,19884,1016389_2,00.html
JUNE 2004
Aniston joined Pitt in Rome for a party honoring the cast and crew of Ocean's Twelve. The pair looked happy, but the seeds of doubt had been publicly planted. "Jen and I always made a pact, that we'll see where this (relationship) is going," he told Vanity Fair at the time. "I'm not sure it really is in our nature to be with someone for the rest of our lives, just because you made this pact."
So, We know in 2004 Brad was calling his marriage "a pact" in Vanity Fair for all the world to know and questioning being in it. This was a "pact" that wasn't meeting the needs of one of the participates and one of those needs was having a family. So if you're going to call names at people you don't know, than I can too. From what i've seen and heard with my own hands, Jen wasn't that excited about starting a family now and was more concern with having a career, there's nothing wrong about that but if an agreement was in place to have a family after 2 years and it doesn't happens...the trust is gone and is hard to get back.
Regarding your claim that Jen couldn't have children...Since she herself have been going around with her 5 year plan to start a family in five years, then she shorten to 2 years...I don't see that as being a problem with her. Anyhoo, Angie has two adopted children, with one of them Brad was with her when she went and picked the baby up. So that wasn't a problem with him..it was starting a family after being in a 7 year relationship with this poser. Seven years is the length of their relationship with 5 years marriage. It wasn't working and his needs weren't being met so they did a legal separation and Pitt went on to another women with a child to have his family. No hard to see...the only issue is the the other women was Angelina Jolie...if you was Angie, you'll be jumping up and down with glee. So get off your high horse and "get real".
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1-15-2006 @ 1:28AM
kathi jiner said...All the hoopla about what the baby will look like... who cares... as the old saying goes if she has had all that has been stuck in her showing on the outside, she would be a porcupine! I agree! She reminds me of Cheryl Crow.... scroungy!
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1-15-2006 @ 6:57AM
Leslie said...I agree with Michelle here. It's immature and naive to think that because a marriage is on the rocks with someone you've spent over YEARS with, lived with, ate with, breathed with, shared your intimacies & dreams with, makes it acceptable to have an affair. Think about Jen here, the victim. An American sweetheart. Not Brad, the supposed victim from "ignorant" Jen. I don't see what Angelina sees in Brad anyway. Sexiest man alive? There's alot of women, including myself, who don't feel he does anything for them attraction-wise. And he talks funny. Look, it took him over the age 40 to have kids even. It's EASY for a man to say, "I want kids and everything else that comes along with it," when he's not the one bearing the kids and has to put his career on hold or make adjustments. Many women out there want to hold off having children for many reasons, not just for careers. Even actually secretly saving up money to freeze their eggs or check out other options, to make it possible for them to have kids at a later age, like in their 40s. Even I want to hold off on having kids until my 40s as well and I'm lucky cause women in my family have been having kids late into their 40s, with no problems. But if it happens earlier, it happens. Not a problem for me. I'm just not ready yet because I still want to live life to the fullest before having kids and I want to stay younger longer. And "Queen Angelina"? What a load of krap! I don't care how charitable she is with her time and money or how SUPERFICIALLY big her career is (even though she's not one of the greatest actresses lately). She's always making that same facial expression in her movies lately (squinting her eyes and pursing her lips in Tomb Raider and Mr. and Mrs. Smith). There is absolutely no excuse to take another woman's man away, like that. I mean the fact that Angelina got pregnant so quickly kind of raises a TomKat Cruise alert. What if is this is set up? What if Angelina really is not that interested in Brad? What if they're just using each other in some way? Or maybe Angelina doesn't care, and is only having the baby so quickly so she doesn't lose Brad, like her past loves. Have you noticed after a while, the men in her life start to lose interest in her? I think I’m even starting to notice it in Brad, in the photos. But now he can't get out of it. Angelina hates her father for many reasons, including the fact that he cheated on her mother. Yet, Angelina has gotten into the habit of taking other women's men from them while they're still together (example: she stole billy bob from his fianc?who didn't find out about it until later). Angelina is beautiful, but there's something evil about her. She's selfish. She adopted those kids out of selfishness. How is adopting a FEW kids out of a billion orphans going to help the world? Maybe it convinces other people to adopt more, but I still think she has selfish intentions. Like a little girl who wants puppies or ponies.
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1-15-2006 @ 8:43AM
Gina said..."Girl," so, you're saying that in order for you to keep a guy, you have to resort to having a BABY with him? How PATHETIC! I think little "Girl" here is obsessed with "Queen Angelina" and wants to make love to her or maybe even morph into her or something. Get a life! Jen is a "good guy." Angelina will forever be known as the woman who stole the husband of America's sweetheart. Jen didn't deserve this. Did she have an affair on Brad? What did she do except have aspirations like every other girl? Jen scared of Angelina? Angelina better be the one who should be scared. I'll come to Jen's defense and beat that pretty face of Angelina's. Brad wouldn't have even paid attention to Angelina before she became successful! Angelina is hated by women everywhere now and women make up more than half the movie-going population. Does Angelina think that because she adopts and does UN work, that gives her the excuse to get away with hurting other people like that? Does she have any self-respect? Who takes other people’s leftovers like that? How is it okay to steal someone else's spouse? And she has the HABIT of doing this too, as she has done it before and would do it again. She knows she's beautiful and she's using it to her advantage for the wrong reasons. When you have beauty like that, you don't abuse the power of it. Does this woman have any morals? Despite marital problems, an affair is not the answer. Angelina is ugly to me now anyway. I feel so bad for Jen. Jen should have faced up to Angelina, instead of being the ’victim’ and said what Sienna Miller said in the press about that nanny, Daisy, who had an affair with Jude Law, 'If I ever see her, she better be in fear.' Although I think that’s bad for her public appearance to be that harsh and I don‘t fully agree with attacking the woman all the time, as the man should get the blame as well. Jen is sooo good-hearted. Angelina does all this charity work in order to bring up her reputation to people from her bad girl image (which she isn't doing such a great job of). The only reason she became even more popular is not because of her acting 'talent' anymore It's because she can pout her lips and because of her strange attention-getting antics. For superficial reasons. She probably uses her UN status as a way to bring up her fame and career. She's sexually crazed too. And look at how skinny she is a couple months into her pregnancy. Shouldn't she have gained SOME weight? She has a big, thick vein sticking out of her lower arm, she's so desperate for some fat on her body. Singer Bono does charity work and Leo DiCaprio does environmental work, but it doesn't make them angels. Does it make it okay for Bono to be stealing other women from men, especially from good guys who don‘t deserve it? Jen Aniston is a good gal and she doesn't deserve this. I don't care how cold she was to Brad. She doesn't seem to have been cold after the breakup, seeking support from her friends. Every girl and guy, man or woman, especially in a marriage or serious relationship, should think about every person that has cheated or WOULD cheat on them or bring them pain and then think of Angelina. I’m boycotting both Brad and Angelina’s movies. They’re of no interest to me anymore and Angelina‘s a bad guy in my eyes now. Marriage is something serious and not something to wreck on a whim based on sexual desire or other desires.
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1-15-2006 @ 9:19AM
Nancy said...I don't know who the person who wrote the article "Lessons from ...Aniston" is, but I really think that she should actually read up on subject before writing about it. Maybe she is just writing erroneous facts to get people reading her articles, to get reactions, good or bad. But once it is down on paper and out there for other people to read, some people take it for fact.
The whole story line is incorrect. Ms. Aniston and Mr. Pitt have both stated that her not wanting children was not the reason for the breakup. When Ms. Aniston was done her TV committment to "Friends" they were going to start a family. Unfortunately (or fortunately) when that time came, Mr. Pitt had started filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Ms. Jolie. And in all likelyhood an affair.
Too many people believe the written word, so please get the basic facts right so that we can form our opinions based on the truth.
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1-15-2006 @ 9:32AM
melanie said...WELL ANGELINA WHAT CAN I SAY SHES A HUSBAND THIEF BY THE WAY IS SHE RELATED TO PARIS HILTON AT ALL I MEAN THEY DO LOVE STEALING OTHER PEOPLES PARTNERS.. I THINK JENNIFER IS LOVELY SHE DIDNT DESERVE THIS AND ONE YEAR AFTER HER AND BRAD ANNOUNCED THERE SPLIT. aNGELINA ANNOUNCES SHES PREGNANT WITH BRADS CHILD.... AND AS IF THEY WERENT SEEING EACH OTHER BEFORE HAND...AND WHO CARESTHAT SHES GOT ADOPTIVE KIDS AND LOTSA MONEY SO WHAT... iF THEY HAVE LOTSA MONEY WHY CANT THEY GIVE 2 ILLION PLUS TO THE POOR KIDS BUILD THEM HOUSES AND GIVE THEM FOOD? ANYHOW THIS PARTNERSHIP WILL ONLY LAST TILL THE NEXT MARRIED MAN COMES ALONG FOR ANGELINA TO STEAL........ GOOD ON JEN FOR WANTING A CAREER FIRST THEN KIDS AND YOUR RIGHT MAYBE! SHE COULDNT HAVE KIDS WE WILL NEVER KNOW. IAM GLAD JEN IS WITH SOMEONE THAT KEEPS HER HAPPY HES NOT THE BEST LOOKING GUY IN THE WORLD BUT AT LEAST NO ONE WILL STEAL HIM FROM HER... BRAD AND ANGE WONT LAST
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1-15-2006 @ 11:08AM
Allison said...Angelina Bad, Jen Good & Brad Dumb
I am obsessed with Angelina's beauty (not her acting) and all the hype that goes with her cause it's kinda entertaining and forget about Brad Pittiful - no interest in him and I‘m not interested in seeing his movie now. But I don't agree with her taking Brad away from Jen. I don't care how bad Jen was in the relationship.
Angelina was adopting all these kids, changing her image from jet black eyebrows to pearl earrings, going around the world (which by the way, she skipped India even though they write about her all the time and is poorer than Pakistan), doing charity work....
AND then all of a sudden she steals the husband of America's sweetheart!
I don't care if she was doing it for Maddox or because she found a guy who finally shared the same beliefs as her (which there are plenty of men who do).
What made her think that stealing the guy of one of the most beloved actresses in America, would do for her? She's a cold-hearted b****, that's why.
They don't even look good together. I didn't even think Jen was right for him either, but I don't think he should have left her like that. I think Sienna Miller would look better with Brad. Anyway, the point is, Angelina should have waited. She seems to rush into things alot in her life. She should be more patient in life. "Patience is the key to success," anyhow.
And look at how she ignored her father for 4 years or more?! How awful. He's an old man. I know that he probably did not develop a relationship with her and probably did not raise her, but still. What if he died all of a sudden? I have a strained relationship with my father as well, in fact I hate him at times and we argue all the time, but I would just feel terribly awful when my father dies. I just couldn't imagine my life without my father, despite how he rules with an iron fist and just makes my mother and I so mad or even hurt. He's still my father. It’s sometimes the child who needs to develop a relationship with a father, cause fathers do sometimes lack certain essential things when it comes to their kids. I think we take for granted our fathers alot. They can be the worst of the lot because of their testosterone and lack of sensitivity, feelings or understanding sometimes and for being overly critical (and critical with good intentions, no matter how hard it is to believe), but they're still our fathers who helped bring us life in this world. We wouldn't have arms, legs, a face or even a brain if it weren't for our fathers. Sure Jon Voight said some things he really should have not said about Angelina, but so has my father and I do get pissed as hell at the old man. Fathers can be dumb sometimes when it comes to daughters or women in general and when it comes to speaking on certain things. But I just don't know how anyone who's father desperately seeks a relationship with them, despite major disagreements as we all have, could just ignore their father for so long. It's a sign of cold-heartedness. There are many people who’s fathers don’t even care to have a relationship with them. There are many fathers who do not want to even be in the lives of their children.
I think there's something missing in Angelina's brain or heart.
Oh and by the way, I read her book about her UN trips and she’s very good at speaking but her description of things were not clear in the book. Boy, does she babble on and on in the book without stopping. She needs to be better at writing or grammar. I didn’t even get some of the things she said because she was writing about things that I didn’t know about as if we knew what she knew.
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1-15-2006 @ 11:33AM
Ro said...It's a tricky situation isn't it. Jen and Brad were together 7 years, married for 41/2 and no kids...not thst it's really anybodys business. Brad always said he wanted kids - no big secret there. It appeared to me that Jen wanted to put some time unto her career..afterall she spent a long time and alot of effort to get where she is now...so after friends she wanted to give anoth few years while there was that window of opportunity. Lets face it older women don't get that many roles and she was hot stuff so wanted to capitalise. I think the acting world - esp Hollywood - is differnt to most other jobs...you have a window of opportunity...you have to take advantage of when you are in the publics favor and work for as long as you can. Timing is everything in this industry. I would guess that Jen wanted to start a family in the next year or so...i get the impression that she gives 100% to anything she takes on and would it would be the same with kids...she wanted to make sure that she was fully available for them. I guess Brad got a bit frustrated waiting..and what happens he meets someone else who has a family...so by being with her he is not taking any more risks family wise (he is guaranteed to have family with Jolie). I hate Ang for doing all of this...she is a spiteful and desperately lonely - there are women everywhere like her. I do think that Brad will eventually get bored with her and move on. Do you notice that he has lost his sparkle? There's no glamour to him, no happiness...no radiance - just an emptiness and depression even.
I just wonder does Jen regret not having a child with him...I think Jen is great - a lady, and hope that her lovely, trusting heart is not broken.
Who really knows what happened though. Maybe they were sick of each other...maybe is happier than ever to be away from him. Goodluck to Jen.
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1-15-2006 @ 11:43AM
Ro said...Brad and Ange are an ugly pair of disloyal selfish brats. BP knows he has done wrong - it shows on his face, there is no happiness in either of them.
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1-15-2006 @ 12:10PM
Jen'sfan said...I have been following all of this from the beginning and from what I can see from pictures, there is NO real love between Brad and Ange. She is pregnat yet there is not even ONE picture of them even holding hands. I am sure we all know that if we are head over heals in love we cannot keep our hands off of eachother..Why are they not like that? I think Angelina is a man stealing whore and she does not deserve happiness.
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1-15-2006 @ 12:40PM
neesie said...i wish jolie and pitt all the best now that she is preggies. but i dislike her and pitts morals and when you do good deeds you keep quite about it because it should be done because your heart is in the right place not for show notice that every thime they announce their news it is always on a un trip great pr.
i will never pay to watch their movies and never fancied them before they where together but now they are all of a sudden she is the big star please. 5 months preggies which makes it sept05 divorced on 2 oct work it out should have waited another year to find out if they are that suited as passion wears of quick in hollywood. a child would not have stopped pitt having an affair so jen was right not to have a kid as she knows what it is like to grow up in a single home marriage a kid does not make. and all these mags that are spreading hate for jen and vince i will not buy them either dont hate jolie/pitt pity them as they will bear guilt of hurting another person.it always haunts you and will never be forgotten. jolies adopted daughters 18 year old mother just wants jolie to admit that she is the childs mother and yet they are sending lawyers to deal with her such a great un ambassor but actions speak louder than words. jen may the best of last year be the worst of this year god bless
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1-15-2006 @ 12:46PM
jamie said...nancy--
brad and jen NEVER said the reason they split up was the kids issue. that was purely speculation from everyone else.
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1-15-2006 @ 1:53PM
ec said...Cute article, but, JA ain't gettin' no Brad back.
IT'S OVER NOW!
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1-15-2006 @ 2:11PM
jazz said...Leslie, are you writing a book?
Who cares about your BOOOOOOOOORRRING life and what you and your family do in your 40's?!. Chances of a baby being deformed or having mental problems increase dramatically after age 40. Yes, women do it, but, to wait so long and putting a baby's health in jeopardy is just plain stupid...especially, when you have a husband who wants a kid, good health and MORE THAN FINANCIALLY able to do it.
Brad not interesed in Angelina?...you must be smokin' pot like JA if you noticed him uninterested. Have you seen the latest pics of them in Haiti?
And those past losers she had [during her 20'] weren't into anything, either. That is probably why she left them. You mean Billy Bob? GOOD GRIEF!!! and the other guy...what's his name?
The woman grew up and got rid of them. I admire her for the CHANGE [in life] FOR THE BETTER....and what do you do for others in need?
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1-15-2006 @ 2:29PM
Missy said...Good grief, people! Why do we really care about this?
Yes, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were together for a while and were married. By Hollywood standards, they were married a really long time. Maybe that's why you guys are all bent out of shape but sheesh!
I don't personally know either woman but Angelina has done all of that UN work. I don't know about you, but in my opinion, you can't not want to help people and do UN work. And Jen seems like a really nice gal and I feel bad for her for her situation. Seriously, though, I care a hell of a lot more about my family than theirs!
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1-15-2006 @ 2:30PM
J. said...Oh, so this is a "HATE ANGELINA & BRAD GROUP." GROW UPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
ALL OF YOU ARE IN DENIAL!!!
[MM Smith] is one of the customer favorites on 'Movies on Demand' tv cable and I'm looking forward to seeing Jesse James. Their movies won't suffer...probably gross more.
Keep livin' in your Dream World because Brad and Angelina are as happy as 2 peas in a pod. All of this acrimony will son pass and they will go on to have EVEN MORE CHILDREN. Maybe Jen will have some with fat Vince, too.
All of that plain face you see is them TRYIN' not to LOOK sooooo HAPPY [they are] for you A**h***...cause they know you mad at 'em for livin' their lives the way they want to.
Judgemental CREEPS!
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1-15-2006 @ 2:50PM
Jigisha said...Wow, talk about crazy people who want Angelina! HOw is it okay to start off another relationship while being married? We all know it did. It was barely a month after the divorce was finalized before Angelina got pregnant.
Did anyone see the "We Hate Angelina" website? It starts off with "How Dare Angelina!" That's what I heard. Haven't seen it though. Apparently, her so called UN work and Mr and Mrs Smith DVD ratings aren't doing anything for her reputation as a husband stealer.
You don't take away someone's husband, despite how many problems there are in the marriage, and expect to be well accepted for it.
We would have been more ecstatic about Angie and Brad's relationship if it had been handled differently. Even Angie's father said he disapproved of her "taking brad away from Jen."
I read someone saying that people are jealous of two beautiful people getting together. Absolutely not true! That's the total opposite. In fact, if Brad was not with Jen, then people would have loved the idea of Angelina and Brad together and having a baby. It was the way it was handled that people disapprove of. If they had waited longer, the relationship could have been all in the open and they wouldn't have anything to hide. Now it's just controversial and not something to be proud of.
If Brad really loved Jen, he could have waited to have the kids. And he wouldn't have paid attention to Angelina BEFORE she became successful. He didn't care about her before. Have you noticed how he gets together with women when they are at their highest stage of success? I give Angelina and Brad 5 years or less.
No one approves of it. No one's jealous. In fact, Brad's not even that cute.
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1-15-2006 @ 2:55PM
Emily said...Haha. Hilarious post, Sarah. I can't believe so many people took the bait.
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