Lady Mondegreen
February 24, 2023
“O say can you see by the donzerly light. What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming…” When I was in elementary school, we
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“What I lack in smarts, I make up for in work…and given how hard I have to work, I must not be that smart!”–Greg hague
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