"I had a baby skunk his name was Pepe."

[Barbara Need]

As an utterance, fine. But in writing it needs a semi-colon.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Etna

On 26 Aug 2014, at 6:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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