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A few answers - Recently I found some comments that were not published at the time because after 7 days I want to monitor them. If I don't do that I get lots of spam comm...
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Beautiful Isfahan... - I'm slightly frustrated...between us, Dave and I took over 3000 pictures in Iran, and picking out a dozen or so to share is almost impossible! So, this pos...
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That’s really a “wow” piece!
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