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My best pal and worst all-time shopping co-conspirator, Josephine, has this latex clothes theory that when zentai you go on a big shopping expedition, if you don’t buy something in the first shop you won’t find anything you like all day.

Over the three or four continents that we have shopped in together, I have ...

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