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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 1:55 pm
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Originally Posted by saulblum
A friend posted to her Facebook wall the other day, «"Miss, I'm going to have to pat your hair down." True story.» She has long hair but by no means huge huge hair. And the typical reply was to laugh it off. «omg hahaha - well better safe than sorry but what a story to tell your kids some day!!! at least we can laugh and smile about something since we are all feeling so sad [about the Super Bowl]». Laugh and smile?! I was not about to insert my own opinions into the mix, though, in this case.
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