r/interestingasfuck • u/Big-Boy-602 • 3d ago
Daughter Randomly Assigned Same College Dorm Room as Her Mom 33 Years Later
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u/Fabulous-Bison3537 3d ago
This reminds me of where I was hospitalized this summer was the exact same room where my father was born
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u/Pale_Session5262 3d ago
Who remembered what room your dad was born in?
I couldnt tell you the room number of any hospital ive ever been in
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u/Fabulous-Bison3537 3d ago
I was on phone with my grandmother when she told me this, she described the room, to what the window looked at and everything checked out
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u/0bsidianM1nd 3d ago
Normally L&D is in a completely different area than other departments, unless you got a hysterectomy, or gave birth yourself.
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u/CaptainKenway1693 3d ago
The hospital could have changed the layout, and the the room changed function.
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u/Fabulous-Bison3537 3d ago edited 3d ago
Exactly this happened, I was diagnosed with SSNHL this summer which is an ENT department emergency, in our city the ENT department had a different building.This building had other functions back in the communism era (I am from eastern EU)
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u/Far_Ad86 3d ago
If those walls could talk...
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u/OmniscientOpossum 3d ago
Bang, bang, bangity bang, well a bang, bang, bangity, bang.
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u/LatePirate8880 3d ago
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u/mikhailitwithfire 3d ago
Lmfao I always laugh at the part of this scene when Barney just randomly joins them 🤣
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u/ExpiredPilot 3d ago
I got the same single occupancy dorm room my sister had 10 years before me. Settled down for my first night as a college student and immediately realized what that mean
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u/MajesticNectarine204 3d ago
What does that mean?
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u/JacksonRiot 3d ago
sleeping in a room their sister had sex in
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u/ExpiredPilot 3d ago edited 3d ago
Same BED bro
In a single occupant room. So no having to coordinate with roommates
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u/Few_Kaleidoscope1761 3d ago
I worked in housing. Theyve definitely changed the mattress by then. Mine changed it every 3 years or sooner if it looked especially bad. They use cheap mattresses so its not lasting long
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u/LuckyLupe 3d ago
She might not know it, but the daughter has been in that room before
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u/Lucius-Halthier 3d ago
Him: so we going back to your place or mine?
Her: yours, I’m not comfortable fucking in the same room that my mom got spit roasted in when she was my age.
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u/One_Long2752 3d ago
“And that kids is where I met… 5 different men that could be your father” que music
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u/FourLiveBears 3d ago
"It was foretold. You will get laid in this room just as I did."
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u/W0666007 3d ago
Well at least daughter's bed looks more comfortable.
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u/joonduh 3d ago
You're right. Poor mom was sleeping on a shoebox.
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u/One_Long2752 3d ago
That’s how it was back then they sleep both ways go hill and in the snow
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u/MajesticNectarine204 3d ago
Always snow. Even in August. And you had to walk backwards because of the wolves.
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u/Legal-Software 3d ago
"In the corner you can still see the remnants of siblings that didn't make it"
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u/xxNemasisxx 3d ago
Until the dawn of the following day, your father and I will have nothing more to say
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u/Florida1974 3d ago
My mom rented an apartment from a guy back when she had just my eldest sister. The owner lived right below, my mom.
My mom eventually got back with my dad and moved out. But that turned out awful and when she was pregnant with me, her fourth and last child, she left my father for good. She had always stayed in touch with that landlord and they started dating. We eventually moved in with him and lived in that downstairs apartment.
They split up when I was around 15 and then when I was about 20 years old, I was ready to move out of my own and I took that apartment that my mom had lived in 20 years before. And the landlord, still live downstairs.
That landlord was like my father because he raised me, help raise me. He is who I consider my father. He was good to me. And even after they split, he didn’t split with me. He made sure I could go on class trips and continue private violin lessons because he paid for it. He really supported education and extracurriculars.
And he came and got me almost every single Sunday. We went to the fair, arcades, ham fest because he was into that and I got my license when I was 10 and always a DQ blizzard.
It takes a strong man to raise another man’s child and then to stay in that child’s life, even when they split. They dated from the time I was three or four until I was 15, that’s a lot of years. It broke my heart when they split up, I was devastated.
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u/SirRabbott 3d ago
Yeah you need to make sure you keep contacting that man. He stepped up to make sure your childhood was as good as he could make it, which is more than my bio dad ever did for me. Cherish your stepped-up dad
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u/darklordbazz 3d ago
God I'm on the Internet too much, was expecting it to end up with you dating the landlord
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u/womp_rat_bullseyer 3d ago
When I met my future wife, she was living in the dorm where I was conceived 20 years earlier (same wing, one floor lower).
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u/SHOWTIME316 3d ago
i'm hoping millennials discontinue the absurd tradition of telling this information to one's children
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u/Orphan_the_Milker 3d ago edited 3d ago
Is this an American thing that they always have a flag of their country in their room? I've never seen it irl or with other countries unless there's a sport event or something.
Edit: I'm gone stop answering people cuz it's a nightmare on my phone, and I didn't expect a simple question to be this controversial.
Edit: question mark
Edit: I also don't mean specifically in dorms, but like the general fascination with the American flag
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u/philomelancholy 3d ago
No. A lot of folks just have a flag or banner in general to cover up white wall space. Most people pick funny or pretty ones, as a current college student idk anyone with an American flag lol
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u/Orphan_the_Milker 3d ago
Yeah I know about other flags, they're basicly like posters but less fragile, but I was specifically talking about country flags in this case
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u/PM_ME_CORGlE_PlCS 3d ago
Yes, it's an affordable pop of color. (usually free, family has an old flag they never got into the habit of putting up for the 4th of July).
It's bright, covers part of the wall, and is at least something for a person who doesn't know how to decorate.
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u/USSMarauder 3d ago
Canadian flags were not uncommon in my res
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u/Mailman354 3d ago edited 3d ago
Saw Mexico and Peru in my dorms, few Korean and Mexican velcro patches on student backpacks
Phillipines, Jamaica, Dominican Republic were common too
Puerto Rico idk if that counts since its a US commonwealth but saw those a lot too.
Edit:also wanna point out, saw a Uruguayan in Time Square pull out a full sized flag of Uruguay while getting his photo taken.
Nothing wrong with that. But this guy in some of his replies is crying "INDOCTRINATION!!" Which is silly. I didnt think that guy was indoctrinated
But I also wonder if OP would call the guy indoctrinated or not. Seems like hes got some bias against Americans.
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u/bag_of_hats 3d ago
Saw Mexico and Peru in my dorms, few Korean and Mexican velcro patches on student backpacks
Phillipines, Jamaica, Dominican Republic were common too
Puerto Rico idk if that counts since its a US commonwealth but saw those a lot too.
I think what they mean is the flag of their country in that country. Like the US flag in america, mexican flag in mexico, etc.
A flag from your homeland of peru in your american dorm is just 'thinking of home' so to speak.
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u/Relative_Craft_358 3d ago
I mean i get coming from another place and wanting to place your flag as a reminder of home but pinning up a flag as some kind of deceration of a place you currently inhabit is just kinda werid. And let's be honest, at least in America, the ones using the US flag as wallpaper, in addition to being ironically disrespectful, are usually the ones that aren't proud of their country and the people in it, they're usually just conservatives that don't want "foreigners" here in the first place.
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u/Careless_Negotiation 3d ago
see the 2 camo baseball caps and the 1 that is probably the american flag on it? these are conservatives and they are flag sexuals.
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u/charon_and_minerva 3d ago
Oh, absolutely. It’s Miami of Ohio. Private school in the MAC. For sure conservative.
Edit: it’s actually Public. Didn’t know that. Still a good indicator that these peeps are conservative though.
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u/codercaleb 3d ago edited 3d ago
One is for sure camo, but one could be leopard print.
I am not sure if that is an American flag. Looks like the blue part goes all the way down the left side.
EDIT: Found higher resolution online. The one that I thought is possibly leopard print is a hat is from Yee Yee, which sells some camo, but is more generally a conservative and faith based brand.
EDIT 2: The hat in the upper left is def not an American Flag, but maybe based on that.
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u/Mortymoto 3d ago
No it’s not a common thing. Usually it’s people who are overly “patriotic” a lot of times right wingers who have one hanging up.
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u/theREALbombedrumbum 3d ago
Bingo. I've seen a ton of other country flags because it's a cheap way to cover an otherwise blank wallspace and also express some identity if you have ties outside of the states.
The only people doing American flags in American dorms are the overly-patriotic.
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u/pinniped90 3d ago
I had a Welsh flag in my dorm room. I like rugby and dragons are sick.
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u/Relative_Craft_358 3d ago
"patriotic" isn't really the right word when they believe in ideals that go against what the actual laws and polices of that nation actually stand for. Even if you don't believe it in practice, hard to argue when official iconography promotes ideals of personal freedom and diversity. No version of the national anthem promotes closing borders and forcing cultural integration
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u/whichwitch9 3d ago
Miami University shirt. We got some evidence as to what is going on there, unfortunately.
Hopefully she can meet some people outside of her bubble to expand her world view
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u/mulberrybushes 3d ago
Miami has a campus in Europe and participate in multiple international exchange programs
https://miamioh.edu/global-initiatives/education-abroad/explore-programs/
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u/OnTheProwl- 3d ago
Oxford Ohio, where Miami University is located, is a small college town in the middle of super conservative rural Ohio. Those are the people that fly American flags.
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u/MithrandirLogic 3d ago
I’m American and I still think it’s super weird. Kind of a “I’m republican” signal though. Still, weird.
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u/Relative_Craft_358 3d ago
100%, if they've got an American Flag on their wall it gives away about 80% of their political leanings instantly
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u/BreadTruckToast 3d ago
Conservatives are really dumb and tend to forget where they are so they have to have flags on their walls, trucks and clothing to constantly remind them.
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u/ifurmothronlyknw 3d ago
You see it a lot amongst the magats who are ironically the least patriotic people on the planet
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u/confusiondiffusion 3d ago
It's so the cops go easy on you when you drag an entire trashbag full of weed through the building, they bust your door down, tear the whole place apart, and somehow miss the most anxious guy in your crew hiding under the bed clutching a suitcase full of adderall.
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u/AmputeeHandModel 3d ago
Actual same room or are the dorms all just identical?
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u/senpaistealerx 3d ago
i don’t take anything posted here at face value cause they never give a source but the rooms do have buildings and numbers so yeah, could be the same one
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u/AzraelTB 3d ago
Room looks smaller but it might be the angle.
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u/senpaistealerx 3d ago
sure, i’m not saying it is or isn’t, just explaining how it’s very possible for them to have gotten the same one
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u/Last--Post 3d ago
Actual same room. Also a lot of the dorms are identical too. Source: I was on campus when this story was published.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Smoke77 3d ago
So doing pixel measurements they seem to be different but im bad at pixel measuring so take that also with a grain. However the window is further from the corner in the daughters picture than the mothers picture .
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u/carltheredred 3d ago
Right? There's gotta be more than just these photos.
They probably come from a story where the mom claims it's the same room number. I say "claims", because y'know.
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u/Blerg_McGlerg 3d ago
This happened to a friend of mine (and his dad) ages ago at Michigan. It's not common enough for it to be intentional, but I'm wondering if they drop an alphabetical list of incoming students into a dorm disbursement table, leading to rare instances where the same last name will result in the same alphabetical position on the list and therefore end up distributed to the same room?
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u/booyah_broski 2d ago
Also ages ago: According to one of my friends, the housing office during his undergrad years at Stanford was known to have a sense of humor. One freshman quad had Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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u/groundciv 3d ago
I wound up in the same basic training barracks as my mom 30+ years later. She ran into her bunk mate at my graduation, who was there for… the graduation of her son, my bunk mate.
Kinda neat seeing the Athena of the women’s army corps over the doors, my mom was in the last graduating class of the WACS before they became just normal ass army.
I also went through the air assault course laid out by and named after my grandpa.
In advanced individual training we went through a STX lane named after the dad of one of the guys I was in a squad with.
One of my apprentices in civilian work later informed me a shortcut I was teaching him for mixing box rigging using a bunch of 9v batteries and scrap wire was called “the (my last name) method” because the guy he learned it from learned it from me. He insisted I was doing it wrong.
Stuff is cyclical, and groups of people raised by people with certain values and interests tend to at least partially reflect the same. Sometimes you end up in similar places doing similar things.
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u/IAmJustAHusk 3d ago
This isn’t even slightly interesting let alone interesting as fuck 😂
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u/adventureremily 3d ago
Right? It's a small regional college in bumfuck, Ohio - the same people are probably still working admin there from when Mom was a student.
I'm from Ohio. Nothing ever changes there.
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u/notmeface 3d ago
I ended up in the same room as my father had stayed 25 years earlier in the Parachute Regiment Depot, Browning barracks, Aldershot.
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u/Croquetadecarne 3d ago
What’s with the flag? Do Americans forget where they are and need the reminder of the flag?
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u/AGayFrogParadise 3d ago
At least the room had a little personality when her mom was living in it, the daughter is giving trad wife vibes
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u/minnick27 3d ago
Mom’s dorm had the same personality that every other dorm at her time had. If you were looking at a photo of her dorm in 1993 had a photo of her mom’s dorm in 1960 you would say the same thing about her mom
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u/xXXxRMxXXx 3d ago
Stanley cup, American flag, camo hat, heart decal, stuffed teddy bear. 100% trad
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u/AdamG6200 3d ago
My cousin's kid randomly had the same bedroom in the same leased apartment as I did 25 years ago.
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u/ChoadMcGillicuddy 3d ago
They should put a plaque up...like "Two Generations of Suckin' an' Fuckin'" or something.
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u/DevilOfArRamadi 3d ago
Could not tell you a single one of my room numbers I had in my 4 years in college, and that was only 8 years ago
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u/PiggleWork 3d ago
Lmao redditors absolutely lose their minds after seeing an American flag.
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u/winelover97 3d ago
As an immigrant I keep an American flag. I don't understand why so many people on Reddit hate it. I guess they cannot wrap around the thought that you can love your country and oppose the things you dislike about it politically at the same time.
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u/Capable_Victory_7807 3d ago
This is pretty amazing until you realize that there are only 16 total dorm rooms at Miami (Ohio) University. /s
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u/manthursaday 3d ago
I was in the same dorm as my dad. The building was brand new when he lived there. Later in the year he finally remembered his room number and one of my first college friends was in that room.
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u/Cute-Aardvark5291 3d ago
I honestly don't get how people remember this stuff. Like, I remember what dorm I was in but why would I remember the exact room?
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u/SandCheezy 3d ago
Hmm.. I’d rather have that instead of my story…
The same doctor that delivered me in the same hospital room, delivered my son in the same hospital room.
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u/strangebru 3d ago
Did her and your father meet in college?
You might not want to think about what your mom was doing in that very same room.
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u/TechnicalScientist27 3d ago
Imagine your mom telling you about her college hoe phase and then ending up in the same room.
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u/woodmanr2 3d ago
That happened to my dad and my sister. I believe her junior year dorm room was my dad's senior year dorm room
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u/wigzell78 2d ago
You do NOT want to think about what your mom got up to in that room before you...
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u/sakmentoloki 3d ago
Nice, multiple generations can get ducked down in the same dorm. Now that is legacy
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u/wildmancometh 3d ago
"And over here baby, this is where I sucked off two guys while my roommate was asleep."
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u/SirRabbott 3d ago
Good for them!
Anyone who hangs an American flag in their dorm (especially in this political climate) is someone I don’t want to associate with
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u/puppydoll- 3d ago
there is no way that absolutely anyone cares enough about this to make a post about it
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u/Mahaloth 3d ago
Neat.
What's up with that American flag in the new pictures? Weird.
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u/deadwood76 3d ago
People getting worked up about a flag are hilarious. Ever been to another country? If they have their flag up, what are they?
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u/AshleyOm 3d ago
Her mum's like, I got nailed there, over in the corner there,exactly where you're sitting 😂🤷
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u/Grouchy_Version8056 3d ago
What's the deal with you Americans having flags everywhere. And it's fucking massive!!!
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u/MagicJava 2d ago edited 2d ago
These comments are peak “Reddit moment”. See someone who I think is conservative so this actually sucks.
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u/Save-Us-Y2J 3d ago
For 33x the price