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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

From Sarah Palin's Secret Diary: Among the many ersatz revelations . . . are that Palin found her teenage daughter Bristol and boyfriend Levi Johnston alone in a bedroom -- buck naked and surrounded by lit candles -- but feared the teens were practicing Satanism, not premarital sex.
Posted by Peter at 8:51 PM
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Collin Kelley said...

Pretty soon we'll all get to see what Levi's working with. He'd better be hung like an Alaskan moose.

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October 29, 2009 4:25 PM

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