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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:37 PM
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Admit your questionable music taste here.
C'mon. I just admitted I like Destiny's Child. I watch VH1 Soul all the time. I didn't hate Mmmmmmbop. There are Snoop Dogg and Mystikal singles I could listen to over and over again. I liked Britney's "I'm A Slave 4 U".

What are your guilty pleasures?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:38 PM
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1. I still play Wham! all the time...I'm devoted to the Thompson Twins,
Boy George kinda gets me. :hi:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:40 PM
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2. Oasis, U2, Dave Mathews
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:42 PM
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3. yanno
I like Freddy Fender. g'head , laugh ...

but..

If he brings you happiness :hi:



ahhhhh
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:42 PM
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4. Spooky Reuben
Only have one somg of his on a Wax Trax/TVT sampler. He's weird, but somehow compelling.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:43 PM
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5. I'm a sucker for sappy songs
all kinds of sappy songs.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:44 PM
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6. I was a big
Paul Revere and the Raiders fan when I was 12.



And I liked the Buckinghams too.



In 1967 or 1968, I went to a concert featuring The Buckinghams and The Who. I came home, threw out all my Buckinghams records and have been a huge Who fan ever since.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:58 PM
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16. I loved the Raiders back then too
I went from them to Hendrix.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:08 PM
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23. A lot of us in our generation made some
strange leaps like that. LOL
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:45 PM
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7. I like Britney's "Toxic"
I even tried to get our garageband to cover it. No go.

And Def Leppard too. I kinda liked them.
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:36 PM
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31. "...Baby One More Time" and "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 01:39 PM by Mad_Dem_X
Both by Britney. I'm so ashamed!

On edit: While I'm confessing, may as well mention that I like a couple of N Sync songs. :shrug:
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NoSheep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:45 PM
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8. When I got a ukelele, I obtained Tiny Tim tapes. I kinda like it!
:crazy:
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:30 PM
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47. If you pushed past 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips" -
you find Herbert Khaury, alias Tiny Tim (AKA: Julian Foxglove, Larry Love, Rollie Dell, Darry Dover, and Emmett Swink) had a huge repertoire of popular music from the teens and twenties. Crazy, like he knew hundreds and hundreds of songs. I think he could have pursued an academic music/history/Americana career because he knew that much about published music, yet ironically, knew almost nothing about the origin or roots of the music.

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NoSheep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:33 PM
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49. I got my tapes from an enthusiast. I really do like a lot of what I heard.
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SnowGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:46 PM
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9. Walking to work this morning, I listened to Tiny Tim
doing a cover of AC/DC's Highway to Hell.

Furthermore - I sang along (when noone was looking).
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:46 PM
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10. Herman's hermits
:blush:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:40 PM
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50. yes, but that (Brit and American) pop from the 60s is classic!
:thumbsup:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:46 PM
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11. joss stone
you already knew that :P
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:46 PM
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12. I don't have any questionable music tastes
except the Sound of Music, but I don't think your average American would think of that as questionable, although I do. But go figure. I love it.
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:47 PM
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13. ABBA ABBA ABBA and I've seen Mama Mia! not once but
TWICE!
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:47 PM
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14. I have the theme song to
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 12:48 PM by stellanoir
"Fractured Fairy Tales" on my answering machine. Does that qualify ?
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:53 PM
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15. Since it's cool to begin with, I don't think it counts.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:00 PM
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18. Argh ! They were playing that between sets at Bonnaroo !!
While they were doing take down/set up ... and I couldn't for the life of me remember where I knew it from !!!


:applause:
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:59 PM
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17. Enya
relaxing and good for Sunday AM sitting reading the paper before the rest of the family is up.
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:00 PM
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19. The XM Radio channel "The Heart"....
Just a bunch of crappy love songs by Air Supply, Foreigner, Christopher Cross, Phil Collins etc. Those songs suck so good.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:01 PM
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20. Kenny G and Barry Manilow.
No, just kidding. Although both are talented, their music is not for me. I liked some of Britney Spears songs like "Toxic". I am embarrassed to admit it too.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:01 PM
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21. Bela Fleck -ish
bluegrassy/celtic-y/tribalish .... very odd, I am.


:freak:
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:17 PM
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26. Fleck is nothing to be guilty about
Pre-eminent jazz banjo player.
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wideopen Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:43 PM
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34. I love Bela Fleck!
I see him every time he comes to town, Victor Wooten rocks too!
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:03 PM
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22. I LOVE 80s music. I listen to little else
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:42 PM
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33. Me, too.
I really enjoy when they get into deep new wave cuts. (At least for me...) Like a good Peter Godwin tune. Or sumthin' like that.

However, I detest Laura Branigan. Bleh...
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:17 PM
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24. I "heart" Kylie Minogue!
Some of the greatest music on the dancefloor today!
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:17 PM
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25. Mariah Carey, but I soon got over that
I bought her first album on the basis of the "Vision of Love" single, which is, of all things, a blues song, very torchy. Soon the massive overproduction, and oversinging on this album got to me. She has gone straight to pop whoredom, too, with her new fake breasts and conspicuous lack of taste.

She does have major pipes, though.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:21 PM
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27. Bow Wow Wow
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 01:22 PM by pscot
Annabelle used to make me crazy.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:22 PM
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28. Erasure- a newfound guilty pleasure.
It's just so campy and dramatic, I can't help but sing along in the car.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:24 PM
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29. I admit it. I like Anne Murray.
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:33 PM
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30. Yes
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out and out
We'll spend the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound and in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love I'll be there with you...

I love this twaddle, objectively meaning-challenged as it is. And don't even get me started on Tales from Topographic Oceans.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:39 PM
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32. Journey & Boston
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 01:40 PM by Neo
As cheesy as they were, there's still raw Rock & Roll talent there. Tom Sholtz & Neal Schon were great guitarists too.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:58 PM
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35. The Monkees
Their first three albums were great. But embarassing even at the time.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:08 PM
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38. there is nothing wrong with loving the monkees
:hi:
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:18 PM
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43. if loving the monkees is wrong...
I don't wanna be right :patriot:
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 01:59 PM
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36. Yanni, I love Yanni. n/t
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:04 PM
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37. Neil Diamond
Soundtrack to Jonathan Livingston Seagull
I know I shouldn't, but I like it.

Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of the Earth
There was no other reason needed for punk


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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:25 PM
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46. Neil Diamond is great. I love Journey to the Center of the Earth too -
and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table too.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:14 PM
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39. The Beach Boys
Perhaps not questionable in and of itself - but when put alongside a C.D. collection which in the most part is either pre-1650 or modern classical (atonal and highly obscure) - it does rather stand out. I managed to shock my entire family by recognising one of their songs in a restaurant a wee while ago.

Occasionally (as now) for the sheer ridiculous nature of it, I play a C.D. of Wurlizter organ music (that's the old style theatre organ) - we're currently on a medley with "Let's face the music", "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails", "You were never lovelier", and "Cheek to Cheek".
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:41 PM
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51. I wouldn't call that questionable
but I'm a 60's kid.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:07 PM
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54. Not so much that it's questionable
It just sits a wee bit oddly alongside Olivier Messiaen, and Josquin des Prez.

There's a great sense of life and fun to it, which is what attracts me.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:15 PM
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40. Boney M, Yanni, Tangerine Dream, Alan Parson's Project n/t
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:18 PM
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44. "And I shall call it, 'the Alan Parson's Project'"
I don't know Tngerine Dream, but I know a song by the same name.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:23 PM
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45. Synth band, started buying them because they used Atari STs, many years
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 02:30 PM by qnr
ago. Excellent music (well, in my opinion)

http://www.tangerinedream.org/

Edit: s/using/buying/
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:32 PM
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48. Tangerine Dream by Do As Infinity ka D*A*I
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2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:16 PM
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41. Britney's 1999 debut CD
I like every song on it. Yes, I'm ashamed.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:17 PM
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42. Backstreet Boys
>_<
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:43 PM
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52. Sheryl Crow
Coldplay ( runs to hide)
Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. Actually KImberly Rew played on that, so maybe not so questionable.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:46 PM
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53. I can listen to most pop music on the radio and not hate it all
the time. With a few notable exceptions. R. Kelly. Limp Bizkit...not that I've heard from them lately, thank God.

There, that's my big confession.

My friends, such as they are, would disown me if they knew.
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