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Kate Wise - Will there be Bourbons?
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Will there be Bourbons?
Kate Wise

We did the rounds.

Mary at the bookies fed me white chocolate-ique mice;
Wendy at the Church Hall over-sugared Nice
and under-diluted orange squash, sickly-bitter.

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