Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
ERMA BOMBECK
ERMA BOMBECK
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Erma Bombeck82 quotes“Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.”
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