Because I'm on the phone, Mom! Fooling around with your friends again!…

Jennifer Donnelly
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Because I'm on the phone, Mom! Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that? Ahmadinejad. Oh, my goodness! What is he saying? That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going. Don't be so fresh, young man! Gotta go, he says to me. Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell. Fall back, solider. Over and out.
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