Sanctions
Jul 20 2008, Robb

Following the amazing comments to this morning’s posting, I have kindly been given permission by my very good friend Duane Udd in the USA to publish his poem inspired by the three word phrase from Grace in the Phillipines...

My huge thanks to...

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