Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West

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Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West
Patt Morrison: LA Times
August 11, 2004

It's one weird summer when the nation's favorite beach reading inclines
to bestsellers by Bill Clinton, the 9/11 commission, John Dean and Tommy
Franks … real page-turners.

But then there's another book, written by another well-known political
figure, and it's a doozy. Throughout its pages are fornication (the
heroine with her late sister's husband), incest (half brother knocks up
half sister), adultery (the heroine, with her first husband's friend),
contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and lesbian couplings (the
heroine's sister and an older woman). And incidentally, lynchings,
dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

The book was published 23 years ago, before the author's husband became
one of the nation's most influential politicians, and before the author
became a Valkyrie in the culture wars. And the author is … aha, you
thought I was going to say Hillary Clinton, didn't you?

It's Lynne Cheney, wife of the Republican vice president. The book is a
frontier novel of the 19th century called "Sisters." It's hot, it's sexy
and it's out of print.

I could find only 11 copies in all of the nation's public libraries,
mostly in red states: four in Wyoming, Cheney's home state, and one each
in North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Kansas, Virginia,
and Kern County, Calif.

On the Internet, the original 1981 $2.50 Signet paperback has an asking
price of $2,999.95 to $25,000, the latter more than the cost of a first
edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." I have "Sisters." I
can't reveal my sources, but my hot copy is now in a secure, undisclosed
location. (Thanks, Mom.)

A proposal this spring to reissue the book was deep-sixed by Cheney,
whose lawyer explained it wasn't her best work. It doesn't show up in
her White House website biography. During the 2000 campaign, she told
the New York Times she hoped the book would start "flying off the
shelves." Now she doesn't want it to fly at all. What a flip-flopper.

Naturally, demand is in inverse proportion to availability. In March,
the New York Theatre Workshop staged a performance of choice scenes. The
snicker factor is obvious, with passages like "Let us go away together,
away from the anger and imperatives of men," and "Eve and Eve, loving
one another" in "a passionate, loving intimacy." So is the hypocrisy
potential, when both Cheneys and their lesbian younger daughter are
laboring to reelect a man who regards Adam-and-Steve nuptials as the
death knell for civilization.

The book as a whole, though, is even more radical. "This is a very
feminist book," said Elaine Showalter. She's a Princeton English
professor emeritus who ran across "Sisters" at a Paris bookstall about a
dozen years ago and wrote about it for a scholarly publication. I
reached her on vacation, which I hoped was being financed by a
five-figure sale of that long-ago copy, but wouldn't you know it — she'd
sold it some years ago for $25.

"I couldn't believe it was Lynne Cheney," Showalter told me. "At that
point she was head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I've
had many not personal but institutional dealings with her; she had a
reputation as being pretty tough on women's history and feminist
criticism."

Showalter thought the book did a "wonderful job" of dramatizing "the
role of women in the West … she'd clearly read [the historical research]
and wrote sympathetically. It's about women breaking away from the
dollhouse and striking out on their own." If Cheney ever did allow a
reprint, Showalter would probably be delighted to write a jacket blurb.

Cheney, who earned a PhD in literature — that's one of the liberal arts
— set the book in 1886 Wyoming, a rough paradise where women got the
vote in 1869 and used it. When the territory was invited to become a
state in a nation that barred women from voting, Wyoming thumbed its
nose at Congress — "We may stay out of the Union 100 years, but we will
come in with our women" — and kept state suffrage. The West led the way
for women, and Wyoming led the West. Soon Colorado, Idaho, Utah and
Washington gave women the vote; so, in 1911, did California.

The cover describes the heroine as "beautiful, strong-willed," which is
book-jacket code for an uppity woman about to be tamed by some man. Not
this time. The lesbianism, the adultery, the contraception would offend
some Bush voters, but it's the frank, uncensorious feminism that's
really astonishing. Cheney's women do what has to be done. No divine
bolt splits the heavens to punish lesbians and fornicators. Life
happens.

I found myself thinking that, in some ways, Lynne Cheney's 19th century
Wyoming sounds like a better place for women than George W. Bush's dream
for 21st century America.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine doesn't feel she has to be a
powerhouse in private and a dimpled simp in public. "I'm not caught up
in that kind of hypocrisy," she says. "I've spent my life facing it
down."

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine debates with the governor and
drops an opera house chandelier on a man trying to kill her.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, a woman might even tell a tormentor to "shove
it," and earn a frontier "you go, girl" for saying so.

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Lil' Bobby Gortician · Aug 12, 2004

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57755.column

Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West
Patt Morrison: LA Times
August 11, 2004

It's one weird summer when the nation's favorite beach reading inclines
to bestsellers by Bill Clinton, the 9/11 commission, John Dean and Tommy
Franks … real page-turners.

But then there's another book, written by another well-known political
figure, and it's a doozy. Throughout its pages are fornication (the
heroine with her late sister's husband), incest (half brother knocks up
half sister), adultery (the heroine, with her first husband's friend),
contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and lesbian couplings (the
heroine's sister and an older woman). And incidentally, lynchings,
dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

The book was published 23 years ago, before the author's husband became
one of the nation's most influential politicians, and before the author
became a Valkyrie in the culture wars. And the author is … aha, you
thought I was going to say Hillary Clinton, didn't you?

It's Lynne Cheney, wife of the Republican vice president. The book is a
frontier novel of the 19th century called "Sisters." It's hot, it's sexy
and it's out of print.

I could find only 11 copies in all of the nation's public libraries,
mostly in red states: four in Wyoming, Cheney's home state, and one each
in North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Kansas, Virginia,
and Kern County, Calif.

On the Internet, the original 1981 $2.50 Signet paperback has an asking
price of $2,999.95 to $25,000, the latter more than the cost of a first
edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." I have "Sisters." I
can't reveal my sources, but my hot copy is now in a secure, undisclosed
location. (Thanks, Mom.)

A proposal this spring to reissue the book was deep-sixed by Cheney,
whose lawyer explained it wasn't her best work. It doesn't show up in
her White House website biography. During the 2000 campaign, she told
the New York Times she hoped the book would start "flying off the
shelves." Now she doesn't want it to fly at all. What a flip-flopper.

Naturally, demand is in inverse proportion to availability. In March,
the New York Theatre Workshop staged a performance of choice scenes. The
snicker factor is obvious, with passages like "Let us go away together,
away from the anger and imperatives of men," and "Eve and Eve, loving
one another" in "a passionate, loving intimacy." So is the hypocrisy
potential, when both Cheneys and their lesbian younger daughter are
laboring to reelect a man who regards Adam-and-Steve nuptials as the
death knell for civilization.

The book as a whole, though, is even more radical. "This is a very
feminist book," said Elaine Showalter. She's a Princeton English
professor emeritus who ran across "Sisters" at a Paris bookstall about a
dozen years ago and wrote about it for a scholarly publication. I
reached her on vacation, which I hoped was being financed by a
five-figure sale of that long-ago copy, but wouldn't you know it — she'd
sold it some years ago for $25.

"I couldn't believe it was Lynne Cheney," Showalter told me. "At that
point she was head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I've
had many not personal but institutional dealings with her; she had a
reputation as being pretty tough on women's history and feminist
criticism."

Showalter thought the book did a "wonderful job" of dramatizing "the
role of women in the West … she'd clearly read [the historical research]
and wrote sympathetically. It's about women breaking away from the
dollhouse and striking out on their own." If Cheney ever did allow a
reprint, Showalter would probably be delighted to write a jacket blurb.

Cheney, who earned a PhD in literature — that's one of the liberal arts
— set the book in 1886 Wyoming, a rough paradise where women got the
vote in 1869 and used it. When the territory was invited to become a
state in a nation that barred women from voting, Wyoming thumbed its
nose at Congress — "We may stay out of the Union 100 years, but we will
come in with our women" — and kept state suffrage. The West led the way
for women, and Wyoming led the West. Soon Colorado, Idaho, Utah and
Washington gave women the vote; so, in 1911, did California.

The cover describes the heroine as "beautiful, strong-willed," which is
book-jacket code for an uppity woman about to be tamed by some man. Not
this time. The lesbianism, the adultery, the contraception would offend
some Bush voters, but it's the frank, uncensorious feminism that's
really astonishing. Cheney's women do what has to be done. No divine
bolt splits the heavens to punish lesbians and fornicators. Life
happens.

I found myself thinking that, in some ways, Lynne Cheney's 19th century
Wyoming sounds like a better place for women than George W. Bush's dream
for 21st century America.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine doesn't feel she has to be a
powerhouse in private and a dimpled simp in public. "I'm not caught up
in that kind of hypocrisy," she says. "I've spent my life facing it
down."

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine debates with the governor and
drops an opera house chandelier on a man trying to kill her.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, a woman might even tell a tormentor to "shove
it," and earn a frontier "you go, girl" for saying so.
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Lil' Bobby Gortician said:

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57755.column

Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West
Patt Morrison: LA Times
August 11, 2004

It's one weird summer when the nation's favorite beach reading inclines
to bestsellers by Bill Clinton, the 9/11 commission, John Dean and Tommy
Franks … real page-turners.

But then there's another book, written by another well-known political
figure, and it's a doozy. Throughout its pages are fornication (the
heroine with her late sister's husband), incest (half brother knocks up
half sister), adultery (the heroine, with her first husband's friend),
contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and lesbian couplings (the
heroine's sister and an older woman). And incidentally, lynchings,
dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

The book was published 23 years ago, before the author's husband became
one of the nation's most influential politicians, and before the author
became a Valkyrie in the culture wars. And the author is … aha, you
thought I was going to say Hillary Clinton, didn't you?

It's Lynne Cheney, wife of the Republican vice president. The book is a
frontier novel of the 19th century called "Sisters." It's hot, it's sexy
and it's out of print.

I could find only 11 copies in all of the nation's public libraries,
mostly in red states: four in Wyoming, Cheney's home state, and one each
in North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Kansas, Virginia,
and Kern County, Calif.

On the Internet, the original 1981 $2.50 Signet paperback has an asking
price of $2,999.95 to $25,000, the latter more than the cost of a first
edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." I have "Sisters." I
can't reveal my sources, but my hot copy is now in a secure, undisclosed
location. (Thanks, Mom.)

A proposal this spring to reissue the book was deep-sixed by Cheney,
whose lawyer explained it wasn't her best work. It doesn't show up in
her White House website biography. During the 2000 campaign, she told
the New York Times she hoped the book would start "flying off the
shelves." Now she doesn't want it to fly at all. What a flip-flopper.

Naturally, demand is in inverse proportion to availability. In March,
the New York Theatre Workshop staged a performance of choice scenes. The
snicker factor is obvious, with passages like "Let us go away together,
away from the anger and imperatives of men," and "Eve and Eve, loving
one another" in "a passionate, loving intimacy." So is the hypocrisy
potential, when both Cheneys and their lesbian younger daughter are
laboring to reelect a man who regards Adam-and-Steve nuptials as the
death knell for civilization.

The book as a whole, though, is even more radical. "This is a very
feminist book," said Elaine Showalter. She's a Princeton English
professor emeritus who ran across "Sisters" at a Paris bookstall about a
dozen years ago and wrote about it for a scholarly publication. I
reached her on vacation, which I hoped was being financed by a
five-figure sale of that long-ago copy, but wouldn't you know it — she'd
sold it some years ago for $25.

"I couldn't believe it was Lynne Cheney," Showalter told me. "At that
point she was head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I've
had many not personal but institutional dealings with her; she had a
reputation as being pretty tough on women's history and feminist
criticism."

Showalter thought the book did a "wonderful job" of dramatizing "the
role of women in the West … she'd clearly read [the historical research]
and wrote sympathetically. It's about women breaking away from the
dollhouse and striking out on their own." If Cheney ever did allow a
reprint, Showalter would probably be delighted to write a jacket blurb.

Cheney, who earned a PhD in literature — that's one of the liberal arts
— set the book in 1886 Wyoming, a rough paradise where women got the
vote in 1869 and used it. When the territory was invited to become a
state in a nation that barred women from voting, Wyoming thumbed its
nose at Congress — "We may stay out of the Union 100 years, but we will
come in with our women" — and kept state suffrage. The West led the way
for women, and Wyoming led the West. Soon Colorado, Idaho, Utah and
Washington gave women the vote; so, in 1911, did California.

The cover describes the heroine as "beautiful, strong-willed," which is
book-jacket code for an uppity woman about to be tamed by some man. Not
this time. The lesbianism, the adultery, the contraception would offend
some Bush voters, but it's the frank, uncensorious feminism that's
really astonishing. Cheney's women do what has to be done. No divine
bolt splits the heavens to punish lesbians and fornicators. Life
happens.

I found myself thinking that, in some ways, Lynne Cheney's 19th century
Wyoming sounds like a better place for women than George W. Bush's dream
for 21st century America.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine doesn't feel she has to be a
powerhouse in private and a dimpled simp in public. "I'm not caught up
in that kind of hypocrisy," she says. "I've spent my life facing it
down."

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine debates with the governor and
drops an opera house chandelier on a man trying to kill her.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, a woman might even tell a tormentor to "shove
it," and earn a frontier "you go, girl" for saying so.
Click to expand...

I'd like to watch her strap-on the Bush twins with Chelsea and Hillary.
Click to expand...

Her daughter was born on the Isle of Lesbos.

If these are Republican Family Values, it's time to change parties -
woohoo!

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Lil' Bobby Gortician · Aug 12, 2004

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Lil' Bobby Gortician said:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-morrison11aug11,1
,37 57755.column

Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West
Patt Morrison: LA Times
August 11, 2004

It's one weird summer when the nation's favorite beach reading
inclines to bestsellers by Bill Clinton, the 9/11 commission, John
Dean and Tommy Franks … real page-turners.

But then there's another book, written by another well-known
political figure, and it's a doozy. Throughout its pages are
fornication (the heroine with her late sister's husband), incest
(half brother knocks up half sister), adultery (the heroine, with her
first husband's friend), contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and
lesbian couplings (the heroine's sister and an older woman). And
incidentally, lynchings, dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

The book was published 23 years ago, before the author's husband
became one of the nation's most influential politicians, and before
the author became a Valkyrie in the culture wars. And the author is …
aha, you thought I was going to say Hillary Clinton, didn't you?

It's Lynne Cheney, wife of the Republican vice president. The book is
a frontier novel of the 19th century called "Sisters." It's hot, it's
sexy and it's out of print.

I could find only 11 copies in all of the nation's public libraries,
mostly in red states: four in Wyoming, Cheney's home state, and one
each in North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Kansas,
Virginia, and Kern County, Calif.

On the Internet, the original 1981 $2.50 Signet paperback has an
asking price of $2,999.95 to $25,000, the latter more than the cost
of a first edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." I have
"Sisters." I can't reveal my sources, but my hot copy is now in a
secure, undisclosed location. (Thanks, Mom.)

A proposal this spring to reissue the book was deep-sixed by Cheney,
whose lawyer explained it wasn't her best work. It doesn't show up in
her White House website biography. During the 2000 campaign, she told
the New York Times she hoped the book would start "flying off the
shelves." Now she doesn't want it to fly at all. What a flip-flopper.

Naturally, demand is in inverse proportion to availability. In March,
the New York Theatre Workshop staged a performance of choice scenes.
The snicker factor is obvious, with passages like "Let us go away
together, away from the anger and imperatives of men," and "Eve and
Eve, loving one another" in "a passionate, loving intimacy." So is
the hypocrisy potential, when both Cheneys and their lesbian younger
daughter are laboring to reelect a man who regards Adam-and-Steve
nuptials as the death knell for civilization.

The book as a whole, though, is even more radical. "This is a very
feminist book," said Elaine Showalter. She's a Princeton English
professor emeritus who ran across "Sisters" at a Paris bookstall
about a dozen years ago and wrote about it for a scholarly
publication. I reached her on vacation, which I hoped was being
financed by a five-figure sale of that long-ago copy, but wouldn't
you know it — she'd sold it some years ago for $25.

"I couldn't believe it was Lynne Cheney," Showalter told me. "At that
point she was head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I've
had many not personal but institutional dealings with her; she had a
reputation as being pretty tough on women's history and feminist
criticism."

Showalter thought the book did a "wonderful job" of dramatizing "the
role of women in the West … she'd clearly read [the historical
research] and wrote sympathetically. It's about women breaking away
from the dollhouse and striking out on their own." If Cheney ever did
allow a reprint, Showalter would probably be delighted to write a
jacket blurb.

Cheney, who earned a PhD in literature — that's one of the liberal
arts — set the book in 1886 Wyoming, a rough paradise where women got
the vote in 1869 and used it. When the territory was invited to
become a state in a nation that barred women from voting, Wyoming
thumbed its nose at Congress — "We may stay out of the Union 100
years, but we will come in with our women" — and kept state suffrage.
The West led the way for women, and Wyoming led the West. Soon
Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Washington gave women the vote; so, in
1911, did California.

The cover describes the heroine as "beautiful, strong-willed," which
is book-jacket code for an uppity woman about to be tamed by some
man. Not this time. The lesbianism, the adultery, the contraception
would offend some Bush voters, but it's the frank, uncensorious
feminism that's really astonishing. Cheney's women do what has to be
done. No divine bolt splits the heavens to punish lesbians and
fornicators. Life happens.

I found myself thinking that, in some ways, Lynne Cheney's 19th
century Wyoming sounds like a better place for women than George W.
Bush's dream for 21st century America.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine doesn't feel she has to be a
powerhouse in private and a dimpled simp in public. "I'm not caught
up in that kind of hypocrisy," she says. "I've spent my life facing
it down."

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine debates with the governor and
drops an opera house chandelier on a man trying to kill her.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, a woman might even tell a tormentor to
"shove it," and earn a frontier "you go, girl" for saying so.
Click to expand...

I'd like to watch her strap-on the Bush twins with Chelsea and Hillary.
Click to expand...

Her daughter was born on the Isle of Lesbos.

If these are Republican Family Values, it's time to change parties
Click to expand...

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Lil' Bobby Gortician said:

± said:

Lil' Bobby Gortician said:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-morrison11aug11,1
,37 57755.column

Lynne Cheney's Wild, Wild West
Patt Morrison: LA Times
August 11, 2004

It's one weird summer when the nation's favorite beach reading
inclines to bestsellers by Bill Clinton, the 9/11 commission, John
Dean and Tommy Franks … real page-turners.

But then there's another book, written by another well-known
political figure, and it's a doozy. Throughout its pages are
fornication (the heroine with her late sister's husband), incest
(half brother knocks up half sister), adultery (the heroine, with her
first husband's friend), contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and
lesbian couplings (the heroine's sister and an older woman). And
incidentally, lynchings, dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

The book was published 23 years ago, before the author's husband
became one of the nation's most influential politicians, and before
the author became a Valkyrie in the culture wars. And the author is …
aha, you thought I was going to say Hillary Clinton, didn't you?

It's Lynne Cheney, wife of the Republican vice president. The book is
a frontier novel of the 19th century called "Sisters." It's hot, it's
sexy and it's out of print.

I could find only 11 copies in all of the nation's public libraries,
mostly in red states: four in Wyoming, Cheney's home state, and one
each in North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Kansas,
Virginia, and Kern County, Calif.

On the Internet, the original 1981 $2.50 Signet paperback has an
asking price of $2,999.95 to $25,000, the latter more than the cost
of a first edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." I have
"Sisters." I can't reveal my sources, but my hot copy is now in a
secure, undisclosed location. (Thanks, Mom.)

A proposal this spring to reissue the book was deep-sixed by Cheney,
whose lawyer explained it wasn't her best work. It doesn't show up in
her White House website biography. During the 2000 campaign, she told
the New York Times she hoped the book would start "flying off the
shelves." Now she doesn't want it to fly at all. What a flip-flopper.

Naturally, demand is in inverse proportion to availability. In March,
the New York Theatre Workshop staged a performance of choice scenes.
The snicker factor is obvious, with passages like "Let us go away
together, away from the anger and imperatives of men," and "Eve and
Eve, loving one another" in "a passionate, loving intimacy." So is
the hypocrisy potential, when both Cheneys and their lesbian younger
daughter are laboring to reelect a man who regards Adam-and-Steve
nuptials as the death knell for civilization.

The book as a whole, though, is even more radical. "This is a very
feminist book," said Elaine Showalter. She's a Princeton English
professor emeritus who ran across "Sisters" at a Paris bookstall
about a dozen years ago and wrote about it for a scholarly
publication. I reached her on vacation, which I hoped was being
financed by a five-figure sale of that long-ago copy, but wouldn't
you know it — she'd sold it some years ago for $25.

"I couldn't believe it was Lynne Cheney," Showalter told me. "At that
point she was head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I've
had many not personal but institutional dealings with her; she had a
reputation as being pretty tough on women's history and feminist
criticism."

Showalter thought the book did a "wonderful job" of dramatizing "the
role of women in the West … she'd clearly read [the historical
research] and wrote sympathetically. It's about women breaking away
from the dollhouse and striking out on their own." If Cheney ever did
allow a reprint, Showalter would probably be delighted to write a
jacket blurb.

Cheney, who earned a PhD in literature — that's one of the liberal
arts — set the book in 1886 Wyoming, a rough paradise where women got
the vote in 1869 and used it. When the territory was invited to
become a state in a nation that barred women from voting, Wyoming
thumbed its nose at Congress — "We may stay out of the Union 100
years, but we will come in with our women" — and kept state suffrage.
The West led the way for women, and Wyoming led the West. Soon
Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Washington gave women the vote; so, in
1911, did California.

The cover describes the heroine as "beautiful, strong-willed," which
is book-jacket code for an uppity woman about to be tamed by some
man. Not this time. The lesbianism, the adultery, the contraception
would offend some Bush voters, but it's the frank, uncensorious
feminism that's really astonishing. Cheney's women do what has to be
done. No divine bolt splits the heavens to punish lesbians and
fornicators. Life happens.

I found myself thinking that, in some ways, Lynne Cheney's 19th
century Wyoming sounds like a better place for women than George W.
Bush's dream for 21st century America.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine doesn't feel she has to be a
powerhouse in private and a dimpled simp in public. "I'm not caught
up in that kind of hypocrisy," she says. "I've spent my life facing
it down."

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, the heroine debates with the governor and
drops an opera house chandelier on a man trying to kill her.

In Lynne Cheney's Wyoming, a woman might even tell a tormentor to
"shove it," and earn a frontier "you go, girl" for saying so.

I'd like to watch her strap-on the Bush twins with Chelsea and Hillary.
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Her daughter was born on the Isle of Lesbos.

If these are Republican Family Values, it's time to change parties
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Not to mention panties.
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Is there going to be DADV?

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