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Sopranos one-episode female characters (D-girl Amy, stripper Tracee) = 180
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:51 AM Author: bearded exciting senate giraffe The hollywood development girl red-head that briefly fucks Christopher, and the pregnant stripper Ralphie kills are both not only smoking hot, but have enough subtlety and character to last seasons.
Sopranos would introduce them and dispose of them in one episode.
They were writing and casting on a level that still cannot be touched by anyone else ever
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:54 AM Author: razzle old irish cottage She was in 2 eps I think but Lorraine Caluzzo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582714) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:58 AM Author: bearded exciting senate giraffe cr.
it wasnt all home runs. the female napolitana crime boss was lulzy, poorly cast.
but when they really hit, it was insane.
i watched the tracee episode ("university") last night. it was obviously "about" young women and their mistreatment, etc., mashing meadow and the stripper and meadow's roommate and carmela.
But never heavy-handed, never feminist, never moralizing... just telling stories about girls and women. Allowing the characters to breathe and be real and make decisions and have consequences.
Tracee maybe has 20 minutes screentime max, but she is unforgettable, and a completely full and three-dimensional character. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:01 AM Author: razzle old irish cottage Yeah when she brings ralphie the pop tarts and Fresca is poignant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582724) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: autistic place of business son of senegal Sil coming to pick her up amd her her back to work is memorable too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584009) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:15 AM Author: Racy Newt Goal In Life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582744) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:30 AM Author: orchid slimy institution sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582759) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:38 AM Author: Clear sex offender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582769) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:14 AM Author: bonkers nursing home (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582833) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583224) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:28 AM Author: sable station windowlicker the D-girl episode was stupid. same with anything involving christopher and his movie shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582755) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:30 AM Author: razzle old irish cottage I sort of agree with this. It’s a convo ppl may not be ready to have but the sopranos got wobbly with plot lines in the later seasons. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582760) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:39 AM Author: Clear sex offender yes. Jon Favreau and a hollywood exec decide to befriend and hang around a relatively low level (at the time) mob associate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582771) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:09 AM Author: sable station windowlicker and christopher being a hood from newark just happens to have a cousin in LA with Hollywood connections (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582813) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:13 AM Author: Clear sex offender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582828) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:12 AM Author: bearded exciting senate giraffe idk. its interspersed with tony appreciating gangster films and aims at meta-commentary about movies and tv about mafioso.
Favreau immediately betraying Chris and the redhead pumping and dumping him deflate the main characters well, reminding us that they are, in fact, scum who we all enjoy watching but who have no humanity to us.
a smart show about mafia in the 2000s somehow has to deal with mafia media, and this was pretty well done imo |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:14 AM Author: Clear sex offender the roof is soft tar! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582834) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:19 AM Author: razzle old irish cottage Idk why but I believe Jon Favreau would be a fanboy faggot irl in the presence of an alleged “real mobster” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582855) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:21 AM Author: swollen abode dopamine jon favreau thought the conceit was believable enough that he was willing to portray himself as a ridiculous clown in service to it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582861) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:30 AM Author: swollen abode dopamine tracee was only in one episode? holy shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582757) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:31 AM Author: sable station windowlicker they also I don't think ever showed the Bing private room except for that one ep (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582762) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:33 AM Author: cruel-hearted irradiated organic girlfriend step-uncle's house She was in two episodes but the point still stands. If Sopranos was made today she would have an eight episode girl power arc to make the same fucking point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582763) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:35 AM Author: swollen abode dopamine agreed, two episodes is still surprising given what an emotional impact her character had. ralphie laughing at sil slapping her around was maybe the most evil thing he did, including killing her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582766) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:06 AM Author: bearded exciting senate giraffe i believe she is only in "university" from S3. She is det by the end. Idr if she has flashbacks appearances later, but she is not in the previous episodes
one of the things that made me doubt my own memory is that, as i recall, in her first lines she approaches tony to thank him for recommending that she take her kid to the doctor. I wondered if I missed that in some other episode, but I believe they just start her in media res.
very smartly give her a backstory and context just in a single line of dialogue |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:14 AM Author: swollen abode dopamine it helps that the characters are so well-developed (or, in tracee’s case, envisioned) that you know exactly how that interaction went. tony was annoyed to be having the conversation and gave her the most obvious brush-off answer, was a little bit repulsed to have to give such obvious advice to a mother, and felt a little genuine sympathy that the answer wasn’t so obvious for her. tracee, for her part, is either (a) so stupid that she actually doesn’t know the answer or (b) so stupid that she thinks pretending not to know is a good conversation starter for her boss’s boss. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582829) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:20 PM Author: sable station windowlicker all that plus she shows her tits (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584789) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:39 AM Author: ocher rehab doctorate when you go back and watch these well written shows every episode in hindsight feels like a whole season. narcos and the shield come to mind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582770) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:40 AM Author: Clear sex offender yeah i had the same reaction. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582772) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:38 AM Author: swollen abode dopamine tertiary characters were often given very spiky personality traits that made them seem like real people. carmela’s dad absolutely loving tony always cracked me up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582768) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:21 PM Author: unholy den (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584562) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:40 AM Author: cruel-hearted irradiated organic girlfriend step-uncle's house That episode was so long ago that Tracee's baby would now be old enough to be a stripper at the bing. Actually she would be in her mid-20's and hitting the point where a lot of strippers become somebody's wife and quit stripping. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582773) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:45 AM Author: Clear sex offender Carter Chong was only 1 episode too? He was a pretty well developed character. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582779) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:27 AM Author: yellow state The stuff with Favreau had some really funny shit - him initially thinking Christopher was there from a magazine to talk about his favorite places to eat, "Vince Vaughn wasn't there!", making fun of him and Swingers, etc.
Ralphie laughing his ass off through the window while Silvio smacks Tracee around is hilarious. "Why was i born handsome instead of rich?" |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:30 AM Author: swollen abode dopamine the car ride home at the end of “christopher,” famously one of the worst episodes of the show, is one of the funniest parts of the whole series. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582881) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:49 AM Author: Plum Travel Guidebook wtf that episode is phenomenal. Just Karen’s death, both for the Bobby Bacala performance, which is amazing, and all the awesome beats like the mob wives watching him crying over her casket and then looking over at their husbands. Ralph’s exchange with Del Redclay shot from Redclay’s POV where Ralph threatens to out Iron Eyes Cody. Carmela’s “whaddaya gonna do” in the parking lot after the speaker that Fr. Intintola hosts drops her mafia diss. Those are all iconic scenes that are regularly referenced today by Sopranos nerds. People hating on that episode are just mad that the mafia guys lose a fight to some bitchy libs. It’s like Star Wars fags who get so incensed about anything other than New Hope and Empire because their main attachment to the story is light sabers making them forget their feelings of insecurity about their tiny pisswyrms. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583080) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:30 PM Author: swollen abode dopamine take it up with frankie valli when you talk to him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583217) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:24 PM Author: Plum Travel Guidebook Yeah that, too! “It’s like knowing James Caan isn’t Italian.” “Oh.” AJ reading People’s History of the United States and mispronuncing words. It’s easily one of the 10 funniest episodes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584804) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:36 AM Author: curious azn background story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582899) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:39 AM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank "that girl's a thoroughbred"
btw this is foreshadowing for tony killing ralphie over pie-o-mly really being about his rage over him killing tracee and tonys desire to protect innocent, harmless things.
"she was a beautiful, innocent creature and you killed her!" |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:41 AM Author: bearded exciting senate giraffe multiple watches i dont think i ever caught the thoroughbred line.
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:43 AM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank it's when silvio talks about lending her money for braces when most of the girls want fake tits, but she doesn't need them.
every time i rematch i pick up stuff like that. truly an amazing show. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 10:55 AM Author: cruel-hearted irradiated organic girlfriend step-uncle's house And at least according to the Ralphie actor, he was playing it so that he genuinely had nothing to do with the death of the horse. I think I prefer that interpretation, although the show leaves it ambitious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582937) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:17 AM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank cr. there's a lot wrapped up in it. tony also sees tracee/horse as meadow, there's that scene at the party where he looks at her and gets flashbacks of tracee. he's battling his internal conflict over being part of that corruption, and how in another world meadow could have been a tracee and exploited by someone like tony.
there's also the obvious power struggle and personality clash between ralph and tony. but that doesn't explain how emotional it was. if he just wanted to kill ralph because he was disobedient and just didnt like him it wouldnt be so charged.
the decision to make it ambiguous was a great one, because it really has nothing to do with the horse. it has to do with what tony projected onto the horse, primarily tracee, and ralph *did* kill her with the same blithe unconcern.
"she was a fuckin' whooo-eer!"
"it was a fuckin' horse, what are you, a vegetarian?"
also note that this is preceded by ralph saying tony doesn't complain when he brings him a fat envelope. tony isn't just upset that ralph was cruel to an innocent thing, he's upset that he's complicit in it. every scene with him and tracee he's disregarding her. being forced to confront his role and thus his hypocrisy is what sends tony off the edge. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:24 AM Author: yellow state Don't disagree, but it also ties into Tony's psychological makeup that they're revealing with Melfi. It ends up being her husband i think that nudges her over the cliff with him. How he's basically incapable of improvement/treatment.
One of the things that I distinctly remember is how they mention that people like Tony are savage and uncaring towards adults but have an exaggerated warmth and caring towards animals and children. |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:31 AM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank yes, tony is a sociopath. but that behavior is about justifying wanting to believe you are a good person while doing horrible things.
part of this is because tony isn't a born sociopath -- he became one to cope with his mobster destiny. hence the panic attacks. contrast that with ralphie who has no misgivings and actually revels in his cruelty (e.g. giggling as silvio snatches tracee from his house and slams her against his car.) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:36 AM Author: yellow state He was supposed to be an architect (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583030) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:44 AM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank cereal box confirmed IQ of 149 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583061) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:01 AM Author: sable station windowlicker yep and the stray cat they adopt at Satriallies who stares at Christopher's picture on the wall is supposed to be Adriana reincarnated. the cat refence is because she did that meow shit in the massive genius rapper ep and also was always wearing leopard print panties and other shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582953) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:16 AM Author: yellow state Did you sniff that girls' panties? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582984) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:17 AM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49582989) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:53 AM Author: Electric lodge milk You’re missing a big one: Fran Felstein. when she almost gave Tony a blowjob. 180 scene (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583087) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:20 PM Author: sable station windowlicker Tony realizing she was a washed up birdbrain slore when she did the JFK mr president song then lying to his buddies about how classy and beautiful she was to keep up his dad's legacy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583183) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:16 PM Author: Onyx sanctuary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584542) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:24 PM Author: bonkers nursing home clearly the worst episode of the sopranos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583197) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:40 PM Author: Clear sex offender yeah it was a real clunker but for a 1 episode character she really hit it out of the park. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583247) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: primrose maniacal crackhouse tank the subtle ways men's dads become humanized in their minds isn't an oft told story despite it being something almost all men experience. great episode and the cringe factor adds to it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584381) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:21 PM Author: unholy den Yep I skip all her scenes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584566) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:31 PM Author: mauve bateful gas station gaming laptop She was a repellent kike. Both Steve Buscemi-directed episodes of the Sopranos are shit tier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584032) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:59 PM Author: fiercely-loyal base affirmative action He directed “Pine Barrens” foh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584867) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:03 PM Author: ocher rehab doctorate wasnt that the whole point of the episode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584879) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:27 PM Author: curious azn background story Never seen any sopranos outside of online memes BUT it’s now tied with white lotus s1 at the top of my cultural literacy queue due to the gorgeous-souled OP, Thank for your time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583208) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:11 PM Author: bearded exciting senate giraffe no, stay golden ponyboy. you are bigger (and better) than television (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583991) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:34 PM Author: curious azn background story *insert Robert Redford nodding as serenity personified here* π₯°πΆπ¦ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584359) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:28 PM Author: autistic place of business son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584027) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 6:35 PM Author: curious azn background story ;-) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584361) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:13 PM Author: mustard toaster clown *DQ "Heavenly" church theme starts playing* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584531) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:16 PM Author: curious azn background story !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll never forget your (gorgeous) bumps in that π thread and Melodies of Life, tyvmft πͺ½ |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 12:28 PM Author: sable station windowlicker The old slore junior eats out in Boca then smashes her face with a pie. also the nice old widow from Junior's neighborhood who befriends him while he's on house arrest and he blows her off even though he has nothing else to do but sit on his ass. sums up what a miserable fuck he was. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49583212) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 7:16 PM Author: Onyx sanctuary D-girl? She was a VICE PRESIDENT! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584538) |
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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:56 PM Author: transparent casino boistinker Scholarship itt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821039&forum_id=2most#49584860) |