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tavernier

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4. My dad died of cancer at 93

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sat Mar 5, 2022, 07:33 AM

Mar 2022

but up until the last year of his life he was strong and robust and very active. I guarantee he would have been on a plane to go over there and fight. He was Latvian and his family was destroyed by communism in WWII. He hated Putin with a purple passion.
And he was pretty good with a gun.

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