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Month: September 2017

Posted on September 25, 2017September 29, 2020

It’s a dog’s life. And the dogs go on with their doggy life.

  Could ‘it’s a dog’s life’ be used refer to a pleasant lifestyle rather than a despised, downtrodden one? It would seem passing strange to…

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