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University Break!

Jun 26, 2006 1:04 PM

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Darryl

Dogs, Pictures

A picture of Darryl with Rosa.
G’day,

It has been too long between blog entries. A lot of great things have happened in this time but I won’t even try to catch up with all of them with this entry. Hopefully I will be able to write about many of these over the four weeks of uni break.

As promised, here’s a picture of my lovely bitch! A few months late!
Regards,

Dazz

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3 responses to “University Break!”

July 26, 2006

Tran and Duska

Your dogs are so cute even though we can only see one of them. We have to come visit you one day so that we can meet them cool?

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July 27, 2006

darryl

You are more than welcome to visit. We could even work on a case study for uni possibly while you are here?

Dazz

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August 4, 2006

RINGO

HI Bro you should have told me that you have a girl in your life, So are you looking out for each other?. I hope you are doing well. Looking forward in seeing you at Blackstump YOU THE MAN Take care talk soon
FROM RINGO

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