Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased
Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe, that what happened, happened as it should happen when things don't come as expected.
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Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe, that what happened, happened as it should happen when things don't come as expected.
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