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By Mikey Rox For many of us, Labor Day is summer’s last hurrah. It’s the weekend when we put away the beach chairs, condition the twinks to go to bed
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Hey, guys! Can you believe we are already in the middle of August? Seems just like yesterday I was giving you recipes for Christmas. Well, we have
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