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Brilliant Bossy Giraffe Sanctuary
  10/22/25
US is so unequal ppl who are in upper professional class hav...
Haunting blue turdskin
  10/22/25
I remain completely baffled as to how the covid checks made ...
dark gas station sandwich
  10/22/25
everyone had ppp loans
cerise dragon headpube
  10/22/25
What a scam that was. Direct transfer from the wagies to &qu...
Bespoke gay spot laser beams
  10/22/25
I have prole co-workers who were in tears and high-fiving wh...
Walnut hissy fit address
  10/22/25
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Yellow mediation menage
  10/22/25
give every prole $3000 and prices go up on everything by 70%
yapping slate dog poop
  10/22/25
Supposedly in 2024 poors and muds were citing "Donald T...
Apoplectic concupiscible den ratface
  10/22/25
Weird how this didn’t work at all in 2020. Almost like...
out-of-control regret parlor
  10/22/25
I think this is it
big splenetic nibblets mother
  10/22/25
they also copped UE benefits for like 3 years, niggas were j...
Haunting blue turdskin
  10/22/25
If you’re barely making enough to cover bills, an extr...
flushed personal credit line set
  10/22/25
*goes to vegas*
Laughsome Library Clown
  10/22/25
They got $3k checks and $30k PPP loans they never paid back....
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  10/22/25
In 2023, 62 year old Dani Walker, living in Seattle, WA plea...
Charismatic Halford Chapel
  10/22/25
lol she was sentenced to a year of house arrest. If you got ...
out-of-control regret parlor
  10/22/25
I didn't get a covid check.
Brilliant Bossy Giraffe Sanctuary
  10/23/25
XO flame aside, your average prole is only worth about $1 mi...
Apoplectic concupiscible den ratface
  10/22/25
Those are 2020 numbers. I am the average prole. Net worth is...
disgusting stag film
  10/22/25
That's true, net worth indicators are always lagging survey ...
Apoplectic concupiscible den ratface
  10/22/25
Flame? proles aren’t worth a million dollars and most ...
Charismatic Halford Chapel
  10/22/25
Why is it so easy to run flame on you? Lmao. So touchy about...
Cordovan mischievous alpha tattoo
  10/22/25
Yeah ok
Charismatic Halford Chapel
  10/22/25
imo proles get auto-enrolled in the company 401k then have t...
judgmental private investor haunted graveyard
  10/22/25
medical bills for a whole range of illnesses late in life ar...
Hairraiser casino
  10/22/25
Only about 19% of US households are worth over a million and...
sienna public bath
  10/22/25
that’s only what they report though. if you were to in...
purple bateful brunch
  10/22/25
Wut? The median household net worth in the U.S. is around $1...
federal yarmulke
  10/24/25
Most Americans are worth a couple million but it’s usu...
Twinkling Soggy Native Boistinker
  10/22/25
That's why I feel like I can walk away from my shitty job. ...
180 useless brakes masturbator
  10/22/25
Approximately 12% to 18% of U.S. households had a net worth ...
odious french antidepressant drug
  10/23/25
The standard edgelord Reagan/Bush era GOP take was that our ...
out-of-control regret parlor
  10/22/25
Idk if this is true anymore, redditors seemed overwhelmed ju...
Cordovan mischievous alpha tattoo
  10/22/25
lol redditors eat out at least 50% of their meals and spend ...
out-of-control regret parlor
  10/23/25
Yeah I scratch my head when people blame “restaurant p...
Cordovan mischievous alpha tattoo
  10/23/25
there’s a lot of truth here even if it was a dreamt up...
purple bateful brunch
  10/22/25
Here's a description of how daily life weighed on everyone d...
disgusting stag film
  10/22/25
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Walnut hissy fit address
  10/22/25
Interesting quote: “The leading article in The Illu...
aqua half-breed hall
  10/23/25
billboard economy - bottom 99% take care of top 1%, like spe...
Stirring drab dilemma striped hyena
  10/23/25
The people are reddit are so unbelievably poor and make comm...
Orange Seedy Telephone Church
  10/23/25
somebody will make a post about eating from a dumpster and a...
purple bateful brunch
  10/23/25
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Brilliant Bossy Giraffe Sanctuary
  10/23/25
lmfao
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cannon
  10/25/25
through the magic of fractional reserve banking those proles...
Violent clear meetinghouse community account
  10/24/25
They're all being "repossessed" now ljl
Walnut hissy fit address
  10/25/25
you haven't lived in real America until you shop regularly f...
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 12:31 AM
Author: Brilliant Bossy Giraffe Sanctuary



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 12:37 AM
Author: Haunting blue turdskin

US is so unequal ppl who are in upper professional class have no idea how furked pathetic and retarded bottom 50% is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365531)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:21 AM
Author: dark gas station sandwich

I remain completely baffled as to how the covid checks made a material difference in people’s lives and had huge effects on the economy. It was like $3,000 over the course of a year. Even if you’re only making $40,000, that shouldn’t move the needle for you *that* much. But people went balling out of control, taking trips to Florida, entering into leases of luxury apartments, buying ETH, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365582)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:42 AM
Author: cerise dragon headpube

everyone had ppp loans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365592)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:35 AM
Author: Bespoke gay spot laser beams

What a scam that was. Direct transfer from the wagies to "business" people. fucking fraud country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49366034)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:49 AM
Author: Walnut hissy fit address

I have prole co-workers who were in tears and high-fiving when the covid checks arrived. I told one guy that it really wasn't all that much and he looked at me like I was crazy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365597)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: Yellow mediation menage



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:24 AM
Author: yapping slate dog poop

give every prole $3000 and prices go up on everything by 70%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365698)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:25 AM
Author: Apoplectic concupiscible den ratface

Supposedly in 2024 poors and muds were citing "Donald Trump checks" as a reason to vote for him. It made that big of a difference to them LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365699)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:30 AM
Author: out-of-control regret parlor

Weird how this didn’t work at all in 2020. Almost like they were just looking for any justification to vote Trump after the Dems decided to nominate the barely re-animated corpse of Joe Biden after he’d been dead for 18 months.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365780)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: big splenetic nibblets mother

I think this is it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365988)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:27 AM
Author: Haunting blue turdskin

they also copped UE benefits for like 3 years, niggas were just living off this shit not having to work

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365703)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:28 AM
Author: flushed personal credit line set

If you’re barely making enough to cover bills, an extra 3k sounds nice. Especially when you have no savings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365704)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:08 AM
Author: Laughsome Library Clown

*goes to vegas*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49366008)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:33 AM
Author: sienna public bath

They got $3k checks and $30k PPP loans they never paid back. The $30k was why they were ballin. Also, the self employed lawyer bros with firms whose only employee was the founders wife got more like $240k in PPP checks. My music teacher wife with an s-corp got $60k.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365782)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:43 AM
Author: Charismatic Halford Chapel

In 2023, 62 year old Dani Walker, living in Seattle, WA plead guilty to stealing nearly $500,000 from the program to, among other things, purchase a Jaguar coup with a faux diamond license plate cover, spent $34,000 on a luxury vacation to New York – including a Louis Vuitton shopping spree -; and invested unsuccessfully in cryptocurrency. After being approached by the FBI, Walker continued her fraudulent scheme and continued to apply for PPP loans based on non existent employees.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/seattle-woman-sentenced-intermittent-custody-defrauding-covid-assistance-program

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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:50 AM
Author: out-of-control regret parlor

lol she was sentenced to a year of house arrest. If you got her to answer honestly I am sure she would tell you she’d do it all again if she had the chance.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/seattle-woman-sentenced-intermittent-custody-defrauding-covid-assistance-program

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Date: October 23rd, 2025 6:56 PM
Author: Brilliant Bossy Giraffe Sanctuary

I didn't get a covid check.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49369564)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:25 AM
Author: Apoplectic concupiscible den ratface

XO flame aside, your average prole is only worth about $1 million USD and most of it is tied up in retirement accounts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365700)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:45 AM
Author: disgusting stag film

Those are 2020 numbers. I am the average prole. Net worth is about $2m in October 2025. As you say, a lot of it is tied up in retirement accounts, home equity, maybe 10% is actually liquid. 4 kids and a mortgage due on the first of the month.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365726)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:48 AM
Author: Apoplectic concupiscible den ratface

That's true, net worth indicators are always lagging survey data and the stock market has gone up since then. Still, it's directionally correct.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365732)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:24 AM
Author: Charismatic Halford Chapel

Flame? proles aren’t worth a million dollars and most of them don’t even have retirement accounts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365772)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:27 AM
Author: Cordovan mischievous alpha tattoo

Why is it so easy to run flame on you? Lmao. So touchy about your NW (and NW)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365776)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:29 AM
Author: Charismatic Halford Chapel

Yeah ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365779)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:34 AM
Author: judgmental private investor haunted graveyard

imo proles get auto-enrolled in the company 401k then have to pay an early penalty to take it out after they get fired a month later. oops!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365783)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:37 AM
Author: Hairraiser casino

medical bills for a whole range of illnesses late in life are what causes the most pain, suffering, and ultimate personal bankruptcy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365787)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: sienna public bath

Only about 19% of US households are worth over a million and that’s including home equity. Most of the people with houses will never pay them off….

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49366011)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: purple bateful brunch

that’s only what they report though. if you were to include the value of the average prole’s trucks, atvs, boats, home entertainment systems, guns, labubus, etc., even at massive discounts to market value, that number would go up to 75-80%.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49366017)



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Date: October 24th, 2025 12:13 AM
Author: federal yarmulke

Wut? The median household net worth in the U.S. is around $100k. For non-homeowners, it is about $10k. Most true proles have a negative net worth with no retirement accounts, no home equity, and an $80k loan for an F-150 plus about $10k-$20k more on various credit cards.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49370356)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:36 AM
Author: Twinkling Soggy Native Boistinker

Most Americans are worth a couple million but it’s usually tied up in a house so they only have $500k or so liquid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365786)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:47 AM
Author: 180 useless brakes masturbator

That's why I feel like I can walk away from my shitty job. I have low 2 million net worth, but if you take away the 401k and house, it's ~1.8 with crypto being down

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365807)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:08 PM
Author: odious french antidepressant drug

Approximately 12% to 18% of U.S. households had a net worth of over $1 million as of 2022 and 2023 data.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49368661)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: out-of-control regret parlor

The standard edgelord Reagan/Bush era GOP take was that our poors were way too rich and spoiled and entitled. And I don’t mean welfare queen schtick I mean that in private they would tell you that the vast majority of the worlds underclass lived on the brink of starvation and had no opportunity to better themselves, but in the U.S. our poors lived better than all but the top 5-10% in most other countries, and they would cite the per capita GDP stats comparing to Europe (which got even more drastic since) and say things like “how many people below the poverty line in the U.S. have a car? Or eat out once a week? Or blast their A/C all summer and their heat all winter?” And “in what other countries do they give their poor special privileges to access higher education? We bend over backward to make sure we do everything we can to help any person who is poor but shows a glimmer of talent and capability and makes a minimal effort to organize their presentation of those talents to a university.” And if you really got them going they’d eventually build to “the New Deal was a mistake” and “maybe we should engineer another dust bowl” and the lawyer nerd versions would start ranting about the Lochner court. And those Reaganite edgelords were full of shit and ultimately half hearted in making these arguments as another attempt to justify tax cuts, but they had a point. 90% of the pity we show to poor people in the U.S. is just middle class people enjoying the implication about their relative status and indulging their own class insecurity and envy of the wealthy. I’d much rather be poor in the U.S. than anywhere other than about 3 countries in Europe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365798)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Cordovan mischievous alpha tattoo

Idk if this is true anymore, redditors seemed overwhelmed just trying to support themselves.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49365957)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 12:51 PM
Author: out-of-control regret parlor

lol redditors eat out at least 50% of their meals and spend their days playing video games and jerking to anime. Not exactly Grapes of Wrath.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49368602)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: Cordovan mischievous alpha tattoo

Yeah I scratch my head when people blame “restaurant portions” for obesity….. but yeah it’d be interesting to see if these idiots are making 50k and spending 51k/yr when High Losers make $390k and spend like 37k.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49368714)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:06 AM
Author: purple bateful brunch

there’s a lot of truth here even if it was a dreamt up as a self-serving post hoc justification.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49366004)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:43 AM
Author: disgusting stag film

Here's a description of how daily life weighed on everyone during the world's greatest Empire to ever exist on Planet Earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49366054)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:15 PM
Author: Walnut hissy fit address



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 12:51 AM
Author: aqua half-breed hall

Interesting quote:

“The leading article in The Illustrated London News commented that:

We can colonise the remotest ends of the earth; we can conquer India; we can pay the interest of the most enormous debt ever contracted; we can spread our name, and our fame, and our fructifying wealth to every part of the world; but we cannot clean the River Thames.[37]”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49367730)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: Stirring drab dilemma striped hyena

billboard economy - bottom 99% take care of top 1%, like spent rocket fuel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49368665)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: Orange Seedy Telephone Church

The people are reddit are so unbelievably poor and make comments all the time about being poor in the most innocuous way like everyone else is also poor and stupid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49368667)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:16 PM
Author: purple bateful brunch

somebody will make a post about eating from a dumpster and a brigade of redditors will swarm in with spiels about how “this sub is being taken over by people humble bragging” and how they “dream about the day [they] might be able to eat from a dumpster” and how that poster’s “father was probably the CEO of Dumpster, Inc. which is the only way he was able to afford it.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49368675)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 7:00 PM
Author: Brilliant Bossy Giraffe Sanctuary



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 11:39 PM
Author: odious french antidepressant drug

lmfao

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Date: October 24th, 2025 12:14 AM
Author: big splenetic nibblets mother



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Date: October 24th, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Apoplectic concupiscible den ratface



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Date: October 25th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: cannon



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Date: October 24th, 2025 9:26 AM
Author: Violent clear meetinghouse community account

through the magic of fractional reserve banking those proles were able to transform $3k into a brand-new-to-me Dodge Charger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49370771)



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Date: October 25th, 2025 12:14 AM
Author: Walnut hissy fit address

They're all being "repossessed" now ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49373261)



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Date: October 24th, 2025 9:33 AM
Author: Hairraiser casino

you haven't lived in real America until you shop regularly for food at Family Dollar Stores

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2).#49370783)



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Date: October 25th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Elephantitus Polio



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