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Tuesday 1 April 2014

Blue Sky Thinking - Fiction


How very true this one is!
Posted by Vic Van Den Bergh at 10:21
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An average Dog Collar working as Priest and Missioner in the SE corner of Lichfield Diocese. Chaplain, Street Angel, Husband and Father.
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