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"2. There’s A Sense Of Malaise And Decay Hovering Over This Old Plantation; I Can’t Imagine What Lies In The Not-So-Distant Past That Caused It" - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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11. "It's too hot for justice today." - Jennifer D. - [ 2 ] -

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Trio stole $1K worth of beer kegs without realizing they were empty, cops say | NJ.com (http://www.nj.com/morris/... http://imgick.nj.com/home... )

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"A trio's plan to bring beer to a lake party Tuesday didn't go smoothly after Riverdale police caught them trying to steal $1,000 worth of kegs from a Route 23 restaurant, authorities said. Even if police hadn't intervened, the scheme would not have worked, Lt. James Macintosh said, since the three Middlesex County residents inadvertently stole kegs that were empty." - JustDuckie - -

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OK, empty kegs are heavy, but not THAT heavy. Good grief. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Zac Posen Debuts an LED Dress Made by (and for) Female Coders | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Fewer than 1 percent of high school girls plan to study computer science in college. Hoping to change that, Google's Made with Code initiative recently encouraged girls to design a "little black dress" for the digital age. The result debuted as part of Project Runway judge Zac Posen's Spring 2016 collection at New York Fashion Week. Coded by LED dress technologist Maddy Maxey, it incorporated animations designed by a group of girls from around the world. Using Blockly, a basic programming language, girls could change the look of their dress by moving shapes, colors, patterns and other variables." - JustDuckie - -

"Maddy Maxey is a "coding mentor" at Made with Code, whose goal is to teach girls to code using challenges that capture their imagination. Whatever reservations people may have about using fashion to bait young girls into more erudite pursuits, it bears mentioning that this is a complex industry in its own right, and that the "little black dress" is only the most recent of a string of diverse projects, including a dancing yeti, music mixer, beat-maker and the ability to code your face into a kaleidoscope. "If you like Made with Code projects, try JavaScript or something else that's similar," encourages Maxey, who believes coding knowledge is critical to the future of fashion. "Keep diving in. Don't stop yet."" - JustDuckie - -

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Inside The Mermaid Economy | Fast Company | Business + Innovation (http://www.fastcompany.co... http://b.fastcompany.net/... )

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"It’s not easy being a mermaid. Just ask Rachel Smith, the head mermaid at Dive Bar, a plush lounge in downtown Sacramento. Every night, she and a dozen other professional mermaids perform elaborate routines to entertain patrons in a 40-foot aquarium populated by fish and filled with 7,500 gallons of saltwater. While Smith, who has been working at Dive Bar since it opened in January 2011, describes her job as a dream come true, she points out that being a mythical aquatic creature for a living has its challenges." - JustDuckie - -

I was hoping there'd be a bar like this in Dallas but sadly, no such luck. :( - JustDuckie - -

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Are MFAs Worth It? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation (http://www.fastcompany.co... http://d.fastcompany.net/... )

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"Quantifying an MFA's worth is complicated by the fact that the professions it produces are often nebulous and difficult to assign financial success to: poets, artist-activists, metalsmiths. Add to that the fact that many students don't approach the two-year dedication common in MFAs as a means to a financial end, but instead as an opportunity to focus solely on their craft. "I didn't go to my MFA programs with dreams of being a star. I went there to learn to be a better writer," says novelist Tayari Jones, who earned her MFA in fiction from Arizona State. "I'm pleased with the professional connections I made, but I am primarily grateful for what I learned about putting one word beside the next."" - JustDuckie - -

"The most satisfied MFA graduates surveyed by Fast Company tended to be those who had entered their programs in the right state of mind: expecting only to better their crafts by dedicating themselves to their work for the duration of the program—not a direct financial boon. "The decision to get an MFA has to be anti-capitalist at heart, since the result is very likely not going to satisfy the market for saleable goods or services. Too many people probably get an MFA thinking it will result in a job, but that really isn't and can't be the point," says Kim Beck, a visual artist and professor at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, who holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. "If one feels a calling to teach art in the university context, as I did, then an MFA has to be part of that equation."" - JustDuckie - -

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Motorist taking selfie video crashes into canoe - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/sv/b... )

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"A Florida man using a selfie stick to film himself while driving his Jeep recorded the moment he rear-ended another vehicle and got a canoe through his windshield." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Classic Floriderp. - JustDuckie - -

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The Truth About Real-Life Dire Wolves (http://io9.com/the-truth-... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"If you’d been walking through a glade 15,000 years ago, and noticed a really big wolf coming out of the forest, followed by more really big wolves, you’d need to run fast. Because dire wolves were real. Let’s say you’re strolling through a glade 15,000 years ago. A wolf comes out of the forest. “Oh, that’s a big one,” you think. More wolves come out. You slowly realize—they’re all big ones. Those are dire wolves. Get ready to run." - JustDuckie - -

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When Wine Tasting Becomes a Party - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"Americans’ growing interest in wine is reflected in crowds that see seasoned veterans who know the importance of etiquette like spitting alongside budding sommeliers who are trying to figure out what they like — as well as parties who just want to drink and have a good time. “Unless they’re a church, they’re going to be loud,” said Debbie Luhrs, the special event planner for By the Bay Transportation, a company that conducts wine tours on northern Michigan’s Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas. “By the time they’ve spent four hours tasting wine, they’re all a group now. They’re all friends, so if one is having a good time, they’re all having a good time.” The complaints arise when not everyone is in on the fun. In interviews, winery staff members and tour operators said that noise complaints were common, but they rarely resulted in the premature end of a tour or the dismissal of a patron. Complaints are typically resolved quickly, in large part because employees are trained to handle problems before they escalate, and efforts are made in the preparation stages to keep large groups separate from smaller parties." - JustDuckie - -

"By the Bay’s customers pay $59 for a tour that includes several stops. Ms. Luhrs said the company has had to end tours twice over the last four years after large groups became rowdy. “Every once in a while, you get that group that’s wearing a feather boa,” she said, referring to particularly rambunctious bachelor and bachelorette parties. “It’s becoming more of a party than a tasting, and we really rein that in because we don’t want that to be other people’s experiences.”" - JustDuckie - -

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The White Poet Who Used an Asian Pseudonym to Get Published Is a Cheater, Not a Crusader (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )

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"Congratulations to Yi-Fen Chou, whose poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” was selected for inclusion in the Best American Poetry anthology for 2015. BAP, launched in 1988 by the writer and professor David Lehman, is co-edited every year by a visiting literary starlord. This year, that starlord was the great Sherman Alexie; previous years have entrusted the scepter to Mark Strand, Rita Dove, and Terrance Hayes. There’s just one problem: Yi-Fen Chou’s real name isn’t Yi-Fen Chou. It’s Michael Derrick Hudson. " - JustDuckie - -

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The Rumpus has a brief analysis of this here: http://therumpus.net/2015... but this is a pretty good summary: "In poetry, as in pretty much every other walk of life, there is no greater advantage to publication and all that follows from it than being a straight white male. Yes, even in the creative world, for all our reputation as an open liberal stronghold, straight white male is the default against which all other writing is contrasted. Straight white males are “literature,” while women and writers of color and gay writers are all shunted off into their own subsections, with a token few allowed into the large category as a way of pushing back charges of sexism or racism or homophobia. If you’re a straight white male, to adopt the name of a marginalized minority is crass and offensive. To do so and think it gives you an advantage in publishing is stupid and insulting to the editors who are mostly doing this work for nothing or for very little pay." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Check Out the Trailer for "A Ballerina's Tale" (http://pointemagazine.com... http://files.dancemedia.c... )

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"The Misty movie is coming! Vanity Fair has an exclusive trailer from A Ballerina's Tale, the forthcoming documentary charting Misty Copeland's rise to the top. There are glimpses of Copeland as a teenager and even with her minimal training at the time, it's clear she's a natural. The film hints that Copeland was also almost permanently sidelined by an injury, which is something I didn't know about her. I think we can expect the film to cover a lot of familiar territory, considering how much Copeland has been in the press, but the chance to see video documentation of her training and early career is really special. As the Copeland effect reaches larger and larger audiences, we can only hope that it will continue to inspire people to become dancers and dance lovers. A Ballerina's Tale will be released in theaters on October 14." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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More Titillated Than Thou - The Baffler (http://thebaffler.com/sal... http://48ic4g3gr5iyzszh23... )

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The commercialization of the Amish brand is, of course, nothing new. My sister and I have a long familiarity with kitschy Amish books: guidebooks to Pennsylvania Dutch country, Amish “wisdom” books, “Plain” cookbooks. But the strange cover of Found represented something new in this faintly comical face-off between the self-segregated communities of faith we knew and a cultural mainstream incorrigibly curious about what it’s done to offend pious Anabaptist sensibilities. For a tortured Amish conscience to be front and center on a mass-market paperback meant that the bonnet-clad and buttonless Amish were merging, however awkwardly, with more commercially tried-and-true narratives of tested devotion and romantic longing." - JustDuckie - -

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Make sure to warm up—adult colouring isn't for cowards (http://www.macleans.ca/so... http://www.macleans.ca/wp... )

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"Before Sandi Jones begins colouring each evening, she takes at least one painkiller. Her warm-up exercises, recommended by her physiotherapist, include rotating her wrists, stretching her forearms and curling a small weight in her right hand, preparing her tendons for the work ahead. Jones straps an ice pack around her shoulder and heating pad to her back. Also on site at her colouring station: Voltaren Gel to reduce inflammation. She opens her colouring book and pinches a marker or pencil in her fist. Soon, like an athlete, she starts to feel the burn. “It’s a radiating, burning pain that starts in my joints and shoots up through my arm,” says Jones, a 55-year-old living in Victoria. She has swelling in her colouring hand after clocking two hours a day, sometimes four, colouring intricate pictures, and pressing hard for a crisp look. She took up the activity in May, shortly after adult colouring books exploded in popularity across North America. Currently, four of the top 20 bestselling books on Amazon are colouring books, some having sold more than a million copies. The primary consumers are middle-aged and older women who find delight or tranquility in colouring between the lines." - JustDuckie - -

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Alaska woman steals police car with husband handcuffed in back - Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/ala... )

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"An Alaska woman accused of stealing a police car with her husband handcuffed in the back seat faces several charges including theft and hindering prosecution, troopers said on Friday. The woman slipped into the patrol's car and drove off on Wednesday while a state trooper was engaged with a passing motorist on an unrelated topic, a trooper dispatch report said. Authorities found the car not far from where it was stolen in Big Lake, a tiny lakeside community of 3,500 people about 65 miles (104 km) northwest of Anchorage. The following day troopers arrested Amber Watford, 28, and Joshua Watford 38, in a home about 45 miles (72 km) north of Anchorage in Wasilla, the report said. " - JustDuckie - -

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Hollywood woman finds iguana in toilet | News - Home (http://www.local10.com/ne... )

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"Peppie Tandhascetti said she found an iguana in her toilet bowl Monday morning. "What are you doing in my toilet?" Tandhascetti asks the iguana, as she records it hanging out in her bathroom. "Come on, get out of there and go home." Seconds later, the iguana crawls out of the toilet and heads out the door. Residents in the Emerald Hills subdivision said they've had iguanas come into their homes before. "(I) went to use the commode, opened up the lid and there was what I thought was an alligator in there," Tandhascetti said. Animal experts believe the iguana climbed in through a roof vent, and when it got stuck it started to look for the largest possible opening to escape, which happened to be the toilet." - JustDuckie - -

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"#KimDavis says her biblical views means she gets a whole fucking shelf in the break room fridge." - JustDuckie - -

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"Protesters just called someone a pervert and cried about Sodom and Gomorrah BUT HE'S JUST GETTING A FUCKING FISHING LICENSE GUYS #KimDavis" - JustDuckie - -

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Bears steal bachelorette party's food in Gatlinburg - WSMV Channel 4 (http://www.wsmv.com/story... http://wsmv.images.worldn... )

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"Paige Robinson said she and her friends were packing up the car at her cabin on Sunday morning when they heard a bunch of rustling in the trees. When they looked over the hill from the driveway, they said they saw several bears coming toward them, so they ran up the steps to the cabin. The women were in such a hurry that they left the car open and a gift basket of candy and other goodies lying beside the car, along with the car key. Robinson said at one point, there were five bears going through the group's food, and the mama bear almost got into the car. " - JustDuckie - -

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This is Not Burning Man, These are the Soviet Bus Stops of Siberia | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... http://static.messynessyc... http://static.messynessyc... )

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"“Several of these countries have little freedom of press and expression. Tourists are rare. I was, on several occasions, accused of being a spy … In Abkhazia my driver accused me of being a Georgian agent and photographing sensitive material. He demanded a bribe, otherwise, it would be ‘straight to the militizia and a firing squad’. Needless to say, he was not convinced by my story that ‘I have only come to your country to see your pretty bus stops’." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Standing on their own four feet: Why cats are more independent than dogs -- ScienceDaily (http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail... )

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"Domestic cats do not generally see their owners as a focus of safety and security in the same way that dogs do, according to new research." - JustDuckie - -

I thought it was because pet dogs have been bred to retain certain juvenile traits that working dogs (and wolves, etc.) outgrow in adulthood. (See also the silver fox domestication experiment: "The domesticated silver fox (marketed as the Siberian fox) is a domesticated form of the silver morph of the red fox. As a result of selective breeding, the new foxes became tamer and more dog-like. [...] The experiment was initiated by scientists who were interested in the topic of domestication and the process by which wolves became tame domesticated dogs. They saw some retention of juvenile traits by adult dogs, both morphological ones, such as skulls that were unusually broad for their length, and behavioral ones, such as whining, barking, and submission." https://en.wikipedia.org/... - bentley - [ 1 ] -

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Companion app surging in popularity - Business Insider (http://www.businessinside... http://static1.businessin... )

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"Tens of thousands of people around the world are now using a free personal-safety mobile app that allows friends to virtually walk you home at night. The Companion app, created by five students from the University of Michigan, enables users to request a friend or family member to keep them company virtually and track their journey home via GPS on an online map. Although they can do so, the friend or family member does not need to have installed the Companion app, which is available for both Android and iOS." - JustDuckie - -

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"As the app was originally designed to aid students in walking home at night across university campuses. If the user calls 911, the app will also alert the person's relevant university campus safety department within the US, but this feature is only applicable to universities that have signed up to work with Companion. At the same time, the app will send an alert to the contact who is keeping you company, and that person can choose to call the police and give them your location, as well as call you to find out if you are OK. People in other countries can still use the app by entering their phone number, together with country code. In an emergency, the app will call the police and send SMS text messages to chosen companions." - JustDuckie - -

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French-Chinese translation contest to offer NT$50,000 - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A French-Chinese translation competition has been launched in Taiwan to promote outstanding translation of French books. The competition, launched by the Association Taiwanaise des Traducteurs de Francais, is open to translated works of original French novels and prose published between Sept. 1 last year and Aug. 1. Poetry, plays, children’s books, juvenile literature or picture books are not eligible. The works should be published in hard copy and can be published by government institutions, schools, corporations, civic associations or labor unions. Translators must be Republic of China (ROC) identity card holders." - JustDuckie - -

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A King Cobra Is on the Loose in Florida | TIME (http://time.com/4021438/k... https://timedotcom.files.... )

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"A king cobra has been on the loose in Orlando since Tuesday, officials say. “We are used to snakes here in Florida, but a king cobra is a totally different story,” a TV anchor said on WESH2. The male cobra is green and yellow and about 8-feet long. The owner, Mike Kennedy, didn’t report the escape right away when it went missing on Tuesday, and could face criminal penalties." - JustDuckie - -

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Silent Reading Doesn't Exist | The New Republic (http://www.newrepublic.co... http://www.newrepublic.co... )

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"It is said that with the onset of a serious illness the first thing to be lost is the capacity to read. I learned the truth of that insight ten years ago, not from sickness but from homelessness. Having fled the approach of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, my family and I took refuge in my brother’s house in Dallas, expecting to return to New Orleans a day or two later. The storm, with recorded winds in the city under 100 miles per hour and, thus, only a strong category one hurricane, did not destroy New Orleans that August Monday morning. But in its wake, defective levees designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers collapsed and flooded 80 percent of the city, an area seven times the size of Manhattan, with saltwater up to fourteen feet deep. By that Thursday, we were coming to understand we could not return home anytime soon. My sister, also living in the Dallas area, brought us to a film, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, to take our minds off the still unfolding catastrophe. As the comedy unspooled in the darkened auditorium, I began to feel as if I couldn’t breathe. That night, I told my wife what had happened. She was shocked—because she had experienced the same sense of suffocation. In fact, she told me, she almost had had to leave the theater in the middle of the film." - JustDuckie - -

"If I bring up this lasting effect among other New Orleanians who survived the flood and its aftermath, many will admit the same disability—and usually they are relieved to learn that someone else can’t read anymore. I think what happened to us, what can happen to someone seriously ill, is related to the silencing of the self that reading requires. Confronting an array of problems that occur to the victim of disaster or disease only little by little—do I still have a job, what am I going to do for money, will my insurance cover what I’m facing, will my marriage survive this, how is my life going to change—one holds on tightly to the self. One doesn’t dare let go." - JustDuckie - -

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Texas State student rides her Barbie Jeep around campus after DWI arrest, Internet loves it - San Antonio Express-News (http://www.mysanantonio.c... http://ww2.hdnux.com/phot... )

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"Some people ride bikes or public transit when their licenses are suspended, but one battery-powered, Barbie Jeep-riding Texas State student is not allowing a DWI arrest stop her from getting around on her own four wheels." - JustDuckie - -

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Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Boys & Girls Clubs join forces with American Ballet Theatre | | Dallas Morning News (http://artsblog.dallasnew... http://artsblog.dallasnew... )

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"Officials for Dallas Black Dance Theatre and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas announced a creative partnership Wednesday with the renowned American Ballet Theatre. The collaborative effort is part of ABT’s Project Plié Master Class Series, which seeks to increase diversity in classical ballet. ABT joined forces with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 2014 to introduce children to ballet, but Wednesday’s announcement adds a new pirouette to a successful national endeavor: Dallas Black Dance Theatre is the first modern company to join in." - JustDuckie - -

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Oops! Guy sends naked selfies to HR department while applying for job | Clark Howard (http://www.clarkhoward.co... http://szcafj.cloudimage.... )

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"The man apparently made a good impression during an interview with the unnamed business last month. "There was a conditional offer of employment made to this particular applicant," Elmhurst Police Chief Michael Ruth told the Chicago Tribune. Shortly after, he “texted the HR director and sent a nude photo of himself." Another revealing picture showed up a day later with no explanation. The company alerted cops who, “contacted the offender who admitted to sending the photographs.” Police reports confirm the man explained the photos were “meant for another individual and were sent to the victim in error."" - JustDuckie - -

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