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New York misses you Tamm E ! Now residing in Baltimore, the home of Billy Holiday and my mother. Must check out Baltimore soon.
Stay well my dear friend.
Thank you very much for the invitation.
Very nice performance....
never did hear from you about that interview - maybe too
much was going on at the time - hopefully will perform
again in Baltimore in the near future - let me know if you
are planning to come to NYC Peace & happiness, Diane
First of all thanks for creating this network!
FIY: There's a female named anita in this network who tries to abuse this website to hook up with male members here, in a rather cheap way. I think this network is about Jazz and we should be careful that it stays this way.
I already wrote her she should move on to AFF or e-harmony but she keeps coming back with the same stupid message, not only to me.
I think we should ban such activity.
Oh, so that's what they're called - sex robots. Thanks for deleting 3 of their comments on my site, but now there is a new one that seemed to pop up even though I changed my comment status so that I had to approve comments before they are posted.
I don't know how to delete them - there isn't an option for this. I just see "comment back", "view thread", and "add as friend".
How do I delete them?
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what do you say?? ;)
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