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ITT: I post opening sentences of novels, you guess the novel (no cheating)
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:06 PM Author: curious den Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096867) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: curious den Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory (love this novel) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097578) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 10:34 AM Author: Sick hairless really tough guy deer antler I usually love greene but found that one a bit of a slog (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50099122) |
Date: August 27th, 2026 1:08 PM Author: curious den Mother died today. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096870) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:16 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Camuuuuuuuus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096901) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:18 PM Author: curious den correcte (The Stranger / L'Étranger) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096907) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:08 PM Author: Crawly Meetinghouse op predicted Mamdani would lose btw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096871) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 9:05 AM Author: pale old irish cottage Wtf embarrassing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098941) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:09 PM Author: curious den Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096873) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:19 PM Author: violet glittery set people who are hurt portrait of the artist as a young man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096912) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:20 PM Author: curious den incorrect, but not outrageously far off (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096916) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: marvelous site Ulysses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096968) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: curious den ✅ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096970) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: marvelous site Are you fr? Wild ass guess based on your response to the other guesser (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096974) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: curious den maybe an educated guess, but correct all the same (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096975) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 10:32 AM Author: Titillating electric furnace i've read ulysses 4-5 times and wrote an undergraduate thesis on it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50099117) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:12 PM Author: curious den While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096885) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: curious den Evelyn Waugh, Scoop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097581) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:13 PM Author: curious den 124 was spiteful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096887) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: curious den Toni Morrison, Beloved (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097586) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:15 PM Author: curious den At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096897) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:23 PM Author: Peach cruise ship is this the swans book? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097517) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:25 PM Author: curious den yes it is actually, that's right you and I have discussed this book on here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097523) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:32 PM Author: Peach cruise ship i reread it after that conversation and gave up on page 100. entirely linear expository narration of events. twas sincerely boring like an actual history book. i must have been fascinated by the content originally. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097544) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:34 PM Author: curious den The fascination is entirely in the events, not in her writing. Nobody before then (or since then) had narrated the personal experience of living through that era of history in the same way. That's what I thought was gripping when I first read it, long ago now. Probably despite her writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097550) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:16 PM Author: curious den What’s it going to be then, eh? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096900) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: marvelous site A clockwork orange (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096969) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: curious den ✅ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096971) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: curious den September 16, 1991. Today it finally began! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096905) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:44 PM Author: curious den William Luther Pierce, The Turner Diaries (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097588) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:19 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage „Als Gregor Samsa eines morgens erwachen hat...” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096911) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:21 PM Author: curious den the Betamorphosis *erwachte, not erwachen hat* *aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte* |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:24 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Ty herr kommandant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096922) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:24 PM Author: curious den (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096925) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:20 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096913) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:20 PM Author: curious den In specific contexts in which abundant empirical evidence is available, fairly reliable short-term prediction and control of a society's behavior may be possible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096914) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:25 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Catch-22 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096928) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:26 PM Author: curious den edit ❌ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096932) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:28 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage No I fucked it up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096938) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:30 PM Author: curious den Oh hang on yeah, correct answer to wrong question. In this place: ❌ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096944) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:31 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage I apologize for being so bad at this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096947) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:33 PM Author: curious den lmao you're fine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096954) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:45 PM Author: curious den Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:24 PM Author: curious den Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096923) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:25 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Dickens (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096929) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: curious den ❌ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096935) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:26 PM Author: violet glittery set people who are hurt anna karenina (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096934) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: curious den ✅ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096936) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:25 PM Author: curious den It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096927) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:26 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage The English Patient (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096931) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: curious den ❌ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096937) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:33 PM Author: Peach cruise ship wtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097548) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: marvelous site Catch 22 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096972) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: curious den ✅ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096973) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:48 PM Author: Frum Cracking Love Of Her Life I think this is the only one I caught and because of the name. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097600) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:30 PM Author: curious den I was born in the city of Bombay ... once upon a time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096942) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:30 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Orwell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096943) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:31 PM Author: curious den ❌ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096946) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:45 PM Author: curious den Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097592) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:33 PM Author: curious den Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096951) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:35 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage 🧐🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096961) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 1:35 PM Author: curious den (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50096963) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 7:19 PM Author: Hot menage hairy legs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098022) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 10:34 PM Author: silver excitant internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098527) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 10:34 AM Author: Titillating electric furnace the spaceporn story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50099121) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: curious den (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097505) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2#50096913
U can get this one! |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: curious den I really can't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097510) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:22 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Proust opening line. Du côté de chez Swann. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097511) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:23 PM Author: curious den yeah see below, I cheated and googled, have never read this, never any Proust (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097516) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:28 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Triste! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097532) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:23 PM Author: curious den I cheated and I would never have got this, I have not read this, in fact I have read nothing by the gentleman in question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097515) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage It's only 4000 pages of him recollecting his entire life after biting into a madeleine dipped in tea. Nothing major. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097530) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:28 PM Author: curious den see I just don't think life is long enough to read Proust (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097534) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:29 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Thots on Les Liaisons dangereuses? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097537) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: curious den the sight of a naked 17-yo Uma Thurman's magnificent breasts will stay with me forever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097541) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:36 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage No idea what you're talking about. It's an 18th century novel dude lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097556) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:37 PM Author: curious den https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Liaisons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097559) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: curious den https://www.aznude.com/mrskin/umathurman/dangerousliaisons/dangerousliaisons-thurman-hd-02-hd.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097564) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:40 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage «J'ai vu les moeurs de mon temps et j'ai publié ces letters.» (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097569) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:42 PM Author: curious den I've only seen the film but apparently it is very faithful to the 1985 play which was based faithfully on the 1700-whatever novel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097573) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage It's an incredible book. I've never seen the movie but it looks like shite. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097584) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:47 PM Author: curious den Does the book have a naked 17-yo Uma Thurman's magnificent naked breasts? Does it? No, it doesn't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097598) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:56 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage You can't get distracted by communist titties. You have to lock yourself in the garage and write the next great novel. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097624) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:33 PM Author: Frum Cracking Love Of Her Life Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097545) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:46 PM Author: curious den don't know :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097595) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:46 PM Author: Frum Cracking Love Of Her Life Sound and Fury (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097596) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 4:47 PM Author: curious den oh good one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50097599) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 7:20 PM Author: Hot menage hairy legs Great thread. These were difficult. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098024) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 8:31 PM Author: house-broken idiotic trump supporter persian 3 May. Bistritz.—Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098240) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 8:53 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Mein Kampf? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098285) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 9:12 PM Author: house-broken idiotic trump supporter persian No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098350) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 10:26 AM Author: curious den Dracula (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50099113) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 8:58 PM Author: Cerebral lemon community account Im gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098300) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 9:07 PM Author: Jet step-uncle's house haunted graveyard A Confederacy of Dunces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098333) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 10:35 PM Author: silver excitant internal respiration A Promised Land, Barack Obama (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098528) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 8:58 AM Author: multi-colored free-loading native God Emperor of Dune (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50098931) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 11:39 AM Author: jade 180 cuckoldry shrine In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50099243) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: Jet step-uncle's house haunted graveyard raisin in the sun (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50100039) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 6:52 PM Author: glassy hall background story It has turned out fortunate for me to-day that destiny appointed Braunau-on-the-Inn to be my birthplace. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50100064) |
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Date: August 28th, 2026 6:57 PM Author: vigorous pearly macaca stage Ok this definitely has to be Mein Kampf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50100077) |
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Date: August 29th, 2026 7:40 AM Author: glassy hall background story https://youtu.be/pCplRJoOVYw?t=155 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897864&forum_id=2:#50101306) |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 3:03 PM Author: @xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::> I'm cheating a little, but:
"We didn’t bother going to the football game. It’s the last game, but we’re all in our own worlds tonight and didn’t want any distractions. And I’ve avoided public places since I beat up that minister." |
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Date: September 16th, 2026 3:08 PM Author: Debunked antisemitic trope no idea what this was but i googled it and AI thought i wanted to kill myself. "That sounds like a heavy weight to carry, and it makes total sense that you’d want to skip the game and stay in your own space tonight. When you're dealing with the aftermath of something that intense, being in a big crowd is probably the last thing you need. It sounds like you and your friends are all processing a lot right now." |