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Rub It In, Why Dont You

I never had much of an inflated ego Vanity left me at birth Our self esteem should travel wherever we go But I always doubted my worth The awful commotion of plane hitting ocean Woke every shark in the sea And I’m left alone with a gut wrenching notion Why did they overlook me The crash had killed plenty, the sharks had took twenty So why did our lord make me last I doubted a sentry was there to defend me The next shark did not just swim past ‘My lord,’ I called out, ’what was I about? Deliver some meaning to me’ That shark chewed me up, and then he said ‘YUK!’ And spat me back into the sea He coughed and he spluttered and then the shark muttered ’I thought that I’d tasted it all... I’ve eaten your species, but you taste like faeces’ And that made me feel really small.

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Date: 11/27/2020 7:32:00 PM
Hello Terry … a case of victim fights back with a vengeance - thank you Terry - Lindsay
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Terry Flood
Date: 11/28/2020 3:33:00 AM
Thanks, Lindsay.
Date: 11/21/2020 10:43:00 AM
Reason enough why people can not agree on one true god! Well scribed! Aloha! Rico
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Terry Flood
Date: 11/21/2020 11:27:00 AM
Thanks Rico
Date: 11/20/2020 8:18:00 PM
To survive a plane crash and then get eaten by Jaws, well id say, damn unlucky old boy. Enjoy your weekend Terry. Tom
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Terry Flood
Date: 11/21/2020 12:32:00 AM
Thanks Tom. You too.

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