ANOTHER DIATRIBE VIA WORKCOMP CENTRAL…supporting such notions?
First, my take on the malicious organized personal attacks by certain members of the Workers Compensation community, then the threads, FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH.
Hint: ‘Smiling Silent Injured Workers do NOT get medical care, competent legal representations and benefits either.’ It’s all about the money.
That notion and disinformation to smile and be quiet to get medical care or charitable supplies is pure insurance industry disinformation/propaganda, IN ORDER TO PROTECT PROFITS BEFORE LIVES, touched with sexist thoughts (akin to the cycle of domestic violence) that women should be seen and not heard, unless they toe the company line, then they may speak, as scripted only.
Take note of how many women are involved in the ‘WorkComp National Discussion’ and the various panels of their regular high-end conferences and parties, ‘All of This Because Somebody Got Hurt at Work.’
See also INSULT TO INJURY: THE DEMOLITION OF WORKERS COMPENSATION – an award winning investigative report about the state of Workers Compensation in America.
U.S. Lawmakers Call for More Oversight of Workers’ Comp
In response to a ProPublica and NPR investigation, members of Congress are urging the labor secretary to come up with a plan to protect injured workers and taxpayers.
The pockets of ProPublica and NPR are apparently too deep for organizations like WorkComp Central and WorkersCompensation.com and their ilk to do battle with — so the WC boyz want to continuously attack one of the very few Injured Worker Survivors who blogs in order to help her fellow Americans, despite a brain injury? Really?
These are the THOUGHT INFLUENCERS, attacking and disparaging injured workers/workcomp survivors are shaping public opinion on what’s desperately wrong with the epic fail and shell game of Workers Compensation????????? REALLY? C’mon, Americans are not that stupid, are we?
If you can still think you might re-read the October 2015 letter from 10 congressional representatives to the Department of Labor Secretary, on the alarming issues of Workers Compensation.
So much for the National Discussions on Workers Exterminations, huh? How are the “Secret Discussions” coming along in the Heartland? D’oh.
FOLLOW THE MONEY, ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Hint: You won’t find it near the Injured Workers of America, Canada or Australia.
The first diatribe was from David DePaolo himself, first as an email (which was ignored) and then it was embellished and became a blog called ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY. It’s not David’s best work or shot, it’s fraught with sexist innuendo and but the comments from Injured Workers will be enlightening to all who read them.

The structure and content is not David’s typical nearly perfect delivery with concrete, critical thinking. In fact, it hardly looks like his writing at all. Was there duress that caused such an attack, seemingly organized to do even more harm? Who knows. Maybe too much time in the air, in the rads. He knows about Wigner effect, etc. He’s a pilot. He has to know.
Injured Workers ask me why David is attacking me, and inciting further attacks. All I can say is, “‘I dunno and don’t care. The behavior sure seems like that of a psychopath.’
Others chime in that they are just trying to silence me. I’m just trying to help discover and implement some win/win/win resolutions that allow Injured Workers to survive, escape WorkComp, get medical care and get on with their lives.
Many Injured Workers want to see incarcerations for the criminal conduct they have been subjected to. A nice compromise is, upon swift resolution of all cases over 4 years old, for starters, wishing the criminal elements of Workers Compensation very interesting lives in the great outdoors, and no reminders to #DodgeTheRads.
I thought David respected the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment, even if the Fourteenth Amendment means little to him and his. I guess I was wrong there, too.

Rosemary, author of the most recent diatribe below, facilitates, among other things, bags of food for poor, impoverished, injured and disabled Workers in Australia who have been abused and tortured by a similar WorkComp system that is allowed to operate without fear or caution, maiming and killing as they go. Apparently she has been providing basics for Injured Workers for nearly 20 years.
David DePaolo seems mad at me because I am not interested in promoting ‘bags of surplus food’ to America’s injured workers. It could be something else. I used to work for an attorney who always said, “REMEMBER, PEOPLE WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR THE WRONGS THEY HAVE DONE TO YOU.”
Organizations already exist that help Injured American Workers abused, tortured, impoverished by the scofflaws of the WorkComp systems. The Salvation Army is one such organization that helps injured workers keep heat and power, and they also have food banks.
I SAY, DAVID AND PALS, YOU’RE IN THE LEGAL WORLD. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU ATTEMPT TO FUND AN ORGANIZATION TO PROVIDE FOOD TO AMERICANS IMPOVERISHED BY THE EPIC FAIL OF THE DESTRUCTIVE, DEBILITATING AND LETHAL SYSTEM OF WORKERS COMPENSATION INSTEAD OF DEMANDING LAW ENFORCEMENT?!!
I received a call from a LinkedIn member who alleged he wanted to help empower me to advocate for Injured Workers. I accepted the phone call. He wanted to talk to me about creating a local food bank.
I politely told him to go to hell, because we have a BILL OF RIGHTS AND A CONSTITUTION IN THE COUNTRY, and if States refuse to protect injured workers and citizens, Congress has offered to send in law enforcement. WE NEED A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION, NOT BAGS OF SURPLUS GMO FOOD.
Effects must surely be addressed, and I too, had episodes of no money where I had to rely on charity because of Workers Compensation, and it was a very humbling and frightening experiences, compounded by a brain injury. I have always been about addressing causes, knowing full well that in so doing, EFFECTS TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.
If the crises of hyper-corruption that facilitates the impoverishment and egregious harm of America’s injured workers is eliminated, food banks for that population will become unnecessary, along with advocacy and legal aid and all public assistance.
SIMPLE – DEMAND THAT THE INSURANCE CARRIERS FULFILL THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE IMMEDIATE, REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE MEDICAL CARE, WITH RETURN TO WORK PREPARATORY ACTIONS, and stop torturing and abusing injured workers. STOP WITH THE LIES THAT WORKCOMP CASES GONE WRONG ARE THE EXCEPTION — DEMAND THE COMPLETE DEMOLITION OF WORKERS COMPENSATION AND HOLD THE ‘BAD ACTORS’ ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE RAMPANT LEGAL CHICANERY AND UNLAWFUL CONDUCT.
HOW ABOUT TAKING SOME LEGAL ACTION TO SEE THAT LAWS ARE ENFORCED, FRAUD IS PROSECUTED, INJURED WORKERS ARE PROVIDED WITH MEDICAL CARE AND OTHER BENEFITS IN ORDER TO RETURN TO WORK.
WHY DON’T YOU JOIN US IN ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO PUT A CAP ON HOW LONG A FILE CAN BE CHURNED IN WORKERS COMPENSATION LAW FIRMS??
IF TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY PAYMENTS CEASE AT 2 YEARS, THEN SUFFICIENT MEDICAL CARE SHOULD BE DELIVERED WITHIN THE TWO YEARS TO FACILITATE RETURN TO WORK.
IF IT IS NOT, THEN THE CASE SHOULD BE MEDIATED WITH STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT AND RESOLVED. THE CURRENT INCENTIVES TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE AND CLOSURE DO NOT EXIST FOR THE EMPLOYERS OR CARRIERS.
IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS MORE COST EFFECTIVE TO DENY MEDICAL CARE AND HOPE AN INJURED AMERICAN DIES BEFORE A JUDGE CAN ORDER MEDICAL CARE.
OCCUPY WORKCOMP because
WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW.
EXPECT US.
ON TO ROSEMARY’S DIATRIBE DIRECTED AT WORKCOMP LINDA
What Difference Does it Make in America? Incapacitation Benefits or Disability Benefits Denied in the WarOnWorkers #WoW
….causing incalculable human suffering, poverty and premature death….. Doesn’t that make you want to rise up and scream:
NOT IN THIS COUNTRY,
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PS WarCrimes in Progress in America…. the rest of the world knows we are being gassed. Demand WarCrime Trials… BE INFORMED NOT JUST OPINIONATED. ASK who authorized shut down of so many EPA Monitors across USA…. AND WHY!
BTW…. TIME TO ALSO DEMAND WAR CRIMES TRIALS ….. AMERICANS ARE BEING GASSED are too deluded to even care, or take any precautions. Can’t fix stupid.
See more at Your Radiation This Week No 55 – BE INFORMED, NOT JUST OPINIONATED.
Linda Ayres What’s YOUR WorkComp Story?
[Questionnaire American workers have been filling out and sending so their stories can be told to Americans and the world. WE SHALL OVERCOME, SOMEDAY]
https://myworkcompcoach.com/whats-your-workcomp-story/
Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson Yes something is wrong, I will not for one second deny that there is something incredibly wrong within the workers compensation industry. I will not deny that I have stood and delivered eulogies at the funerals of injured workers who have taken their own lives; now will I deny that I run the only emergency food relief project {Bags of Love} for injured workers and their families; I will not deny that I have sat in the reception areas of claims agents to collect overdue monies for injured workers. I will not deny any of what I have done over the last 20+ years as firstly an injured worker and secondly as an advocate for injured workers.
My name has been dragged through the mud, my name has been used in a form of a witch hunt, I have been accused of getting into bed with the system and getting unaccounted for payments from the system- to the point where I gave permission for an investigator to search my bank details and my tax information.
Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson I walk the finest of lines possible.
As an advocate for injured workers I am required to go where no others dream or dare to go.
As an advocate I speak up and I speak out against all forms of injustice.
I write letters to inform the Boards of major companies just what is happening in the lives of their injured workforce.
As an advocate I have offered to lodge claims against case managers using the very same legislation that they use against injured workers.
As an advocate I speak loudly for the injured workers who do not believe that anyone will care or any one will listen.
As an advocate I have studied legislation, I have studied policy and procedures and I have studied the various systems.
As an advocate I have had to learn and learn fast what can be done, what is achievable and how to bend the legislation but never break it.
I also learnt a long time back that carping and complaining changes nothing.
I also was told that if I didn’t like the system, then I had to change it.
Rosemary McKenzie-FergusonWhat I do know is that I am respected for the way I go about my work, my opinion is sought after and listened to. I have multiple Awards after my name.
I have been invited places and addressed conferences where no other injured worker advocate has been invited before.
All of this against is of no value- it is like standing at a door and pushing and pushing and pushing as hard as you can whilst ignoring the sign on the door that says pull.
If you want change, then be the change that you want to see.
Being angry serves no one and changes nothing.
Linda Ayres Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson – Thanks for saying how wonderful you are. It’s a bit off topic, but ok. I am very familiar with your work, and your supporters.
I do hope you will encourage your son to specialize in Mediation, with a strong understanding of Structured Settlements. He seems to be a very bright young man with great compassion and will-to-good.
There’s a grassroots movement in the works to create such a national operation here in the USA to help Injured Workers escape the Workers Compensation system. This is America. WE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, AND FREEDOM ISN’T FREE. ASK ANYBODY IN OUR MILITARY. ASK ANY PATRIOT.
I have to tell you, Injured American Workers were wondering who the next attacker would. We guessed it would be Joe Paduda and someone else from the Best Blogs of 2016. Joe is hanging in there with Kimberly in one of the threads of Injured Workers. Good for them. You are a surprise “combatant.”
BRB
Linda Ayres Doesn’t look like you’re keeping pace… here’s yesterday’s blog on topic:
Workers Compensation NATIONAL DISCUSSION that includes Voices of Injured Workershttps://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/2016/05/11/workers-compensation-national-discussion-that-includes-voices-of-injured-workers/
It was very creative of David and his team to add in so many links to my blogs…. wouldn’t you agree?
BRB–
Linda Ayres If you helped David write ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY, you probably also saw the original draft, that was sent to me as an email attack. Did you see the blogs and posts and comments of response? Here you go, for you convenience.
I must say that if you promote the belief that “SMILING INJURED WORKERS GET WORK COMP BENEFITS” that’s as silly as the Nuclear Industry telling the people of Japan that “Smiling People Don’t Get Radiation Poisoning”…. and just as vile. Maybe it works in Australia, but not in America.
OPEN LETTER TO WorkCompsters about “THE BLAME GAME”
https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/2016/05/06/open-letter-to-workcompsters-about-the-blame-game/
BRB
Linda Ayres I didn’t bother to bring these blogs either here to WorkCompCentral or to the Sedgwick Institute group on LinkedIn…. the Boyz made their positions quite clear….
Sorry Injured Workers – I tried to pry open some doors to communication with the WorkCompsters…to no avail
https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/2016/05/09/sorry-injured-workers-i-tried-to-pry-open-some-doors-to-communication-with-the-workcompsters-to-no-avail/
BRB
Linda Ayres I think David linked this one in Assume Responsibility… am I right?
Did you get a chance to read it yet? Oh yeah, this is one of the ones where it was obvious that David and Sedgwick had a ‘meeting’… Bob Wilson was late, but left shortly thereafter…
David had suggested that Injured Workers rewire their mind set in this thread with a post, I think, you know, ‘don’t worry, be happy, forgive and forget the most vile of crimes committed against Americans and rebuild on dust, or, like one of his reporters recommended, ‘best to hope for is Social Security Award and an early death’ to one injured worker.
WorkComp – MORE TROUBLES! National Discussion Communications Breakdown
https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/2016/05/09/workcomp-more-troubles-national-discussion-communications-breakdown/
BRB
Linda Ayres David was very mean and untruthful in Assume Responsibility, but I think he may have been egged on by bad influencers. Over the years, David had always been kind to me, and generous with his expertise. He got real mad at me when I told him I was going to a meeting “with an open heart, an open mind, and an empty brief case.” He ranted harshly that nobody would help me because I was too angry. When all was said and done, even the Defense Attorney and several doctors applauded my survival efforts; some, in fact, suggested I begin to coach others. David forgets how many blogs I shared promoting CompLaude in 2014 and 2015, and totally forgot, apparently, how many blogs I did about the new Sedgwick Institute linked in group. And ol’ Bob Wilson could only be insulting and demeaning and whining that not too many people nominated for the Best Blogs — but I also did my best, despite my personal opinions of Bob and his work, for the greater good, I shared his darn links around social media.
Linda Ayres Here’s another May 6 response to the initial email attack… clarifying some of the word usage.. David wrapped up with suggesting I read “HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE” and I got a good laugh out of that, as did many of many dear friends. Initial reaction to that suggestion was, ‘yeah, sure David, and you might open Sun Tzu’s THE ART OF WAR to any random page…. but it helps to study the whole book.
Anywhere, here’s that LinkediN link:
Injured Workers’ Stories Are The Same – minor differences are names, body parts and case numbers – Ask a Doctor or Lawyer for confirmation
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/injured-workers-stories-same-minor-differences-names-linda-ayres
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Linda Ayres So, since this seems like a highly suspicious organized attack to ‘Silence the Blogger’ and since I think I read that David is claiming that these national discussions are involving input from Injured Workers, I’m ‘puzzled, baffled, bewildered, perplexed’ at such a comment.
Injured Workers are puzzled that the Boyz think that you, an Australian if I am not mistaken, are the only injured worker capable of telling it like it is along with Bob’s ‘key executive’ who also survived WorkComp many years ago.
My blog, ASK ABOUT WORKERS COMP GRAVY TRAINS was started in Summer 2013, and the reach is well over 30,000 now. You might find some value in studying it. Influencers have.
As of the first of this year, the shift took place away from my personal case to addressing the national crises in WorkComp that causes such egregious harm to too many Americans.
LIST : https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/list-of-posts-ask-about-workers-comp-gravy-trains/
BRB
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Linda Ayres I was planning a Virtual Field Trip to Facebook for Industry people — to the Injured Worker ghettos to encourage communications and fact finding for the industry. I had to postpone it due to these silly personal diatribes.
WorkComp Field Trip Next Week! All Aboard! Visit Facebook WorkComp Ghettos and Interact with Real Insured Workers from USA, Canada and Australia
https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/2016/04/30/workcomp-field-trip-next-week-all-aboard-visit-facebook-workcomp-ghettos-and-interact-with-real-insured-workers-from-usa-canada-and-australia/Show less
Linda Ayres While it’s true that the Virtual Field Trip to Facebook to hear the cries and screams and terror of Injured Workers from USA, Canada, Australia has been postponed, the ‘travel brochure’ can be found in this new LinkedIn group… Occupy WorkComphttps://www.linkedin.com/groups/7054693
More on that here:
Mic Check! HELP WANTED- Occupy WorkComp Virtually because WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW
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Linda AyresIn conclusion, one of your countrymen is also big on interfering with Americans in a way that can cause them harm and death ….
I will never forget, nor forgive, the one who told our young people ‘RUN NAKED IN THE STREETS IF YOU HAVE TO TO SHOUT ABOUT THE DANGEROUS OF NUCLEAR POWER’ …. The Streets were Hanford, Washington, and it is one of the TOP TEN MOST RADIOACTIVE PLACES ON EARTH.
She was one of the top referrers of my blog, ASK ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NOW, for several years. I do not reciprocate sharing her disinformation. You may know Dr. Helen Caldicott?
Don’t be like her. Stay out our business and if you aim to harm Injured Americans by diluting and minimizing the dangers we face in WorkComp or nuclear, you have another fight on your hands, lady. Your attack makes you more like them than like us…. and the money trail never lies.
In further thought, your comments and personal boasting are totally off topic. If this was facebook, you might be censored.
Fonzseau Darren First off I think you both are great, and both are trying to help injured workers in each of your own ways. As far as building bridges, I have watched Linda over the past 5 years, try and do just that, with and industry and industry professionals that do not want the injured workers voices, who are being harmed by this system, to be heard. While at fist I was happy to see and be nominated along with LInda, for the Comp Laude™ Awards, in time I have come to see it as nothing but a propaganda tool for the big insurance industry namely Sedgwick who is one of its main sponsors. While charity is great, and I commend folks for their efforts on behalf of the injured workers, but it’s exactly what many in the big insurance industry want the injured workers to do, after they have been cheated out of the grand bargain or social contract, is have to rely on charity, while their being pushed off to the federal rolls, or jobs that pay them half as much as the jobs they were injured on. Show less
Fonzseau Darren One has to wonder why Comp Laude™ Awards, sponsored by the big insurance industry, would skip over folks like Dina Padilia, NAIDW | Jon A. Arbay, Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR, and many other injured workers advocates and injured workers, (who are speaking up about the harm the system is doing to injured workers) right here in our own back yards? The injured workers being locked out of having our voices heard, have every right to be angry. And lets not forget that it was angry workers 100 years ago, that brought about all the workers protections we have here today, that the big insurers like Sedgwick along with a group named ALEC are trying to erode and take away from the labor force today. Taking away the protections forcing the injured to have to rely on charity of Federal aid. So as corporate America, gets out of it end of the contractual grand bargain, harming employers and employees, all for profits of a few elites, and their private equity hedge funds. Show less
Fonzseau Darren The injured workers in America, who’s voices are locked out by industry bloggers and insiders, trying to paint a picture of Workers Comp in a way the insurance industry wants them to paint it, have every right to be angry. And let’s not forget that it was anger from labor in the past that have got us the rights were fighting so hard for here today. One of the most significant events in the struggle for labor laws in America played out in Las Animas County in the spring of 1914. With the control of much of Colorado’s coal mines in the hands of just a few companies, miners grew increasingly intolerant of low wages and dangerous working conditions. Despite efforts to suppress union activity, the United Mine Workers of America called a strike in September of 1913. Despite this tragic outcome, the the event sparked national outrage and led the way of workers’ rights in America.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qIHN68YNXwShow less
Fonzseau Darren I can not speak for Linda, but for myself, I know in my heart that she and I are not trying to diminish your great and noble efforts, and dedication for decades, to fight for the rights of injured workers and our well beings. You and your efforts are truly valued by all. The injured workers, (adversely affected by our broken workers comp system) are only asking that folks take a moment to see things from our point of view as well. We have every valid right to be angry, and to ask why our voices are not being heard and represented in the badly needed National conversations on workers comp. Not just the injured workers, and advocates, the insurance industry hand pick’s, thru it’s spokesmen, to be worthy of hearing from. One does have to wonder, why bridges builders like NAIDW | Jon A. Arbay, Dina, and the investigative NPR reporters, and even the injured workers that shared their stories in those reports, are not being award and heard from, in the national forums on workers comp? Show less
Fonzseau Darren What us injured are up against here in America and Im sure around the World, are a group of conservative profiteers, trying to use our social programs to enforce their own moral agenda’s and profiteer off all the misery that creates. This conservative group feels that workers comp should not cover the non catastrophic OJI’s, and that it should only cover the more seriously injured workers. Thus creating a legal battle for the non catastrophic injured workers to get the treatments and re training’s, were deserving of under our grand bargain, that our for fathers fought and died for not so long ago. This has created a class war between these conservatives, and those being deemed not broken enough to deserve care under these moral conditions being legislated in our workers comp and HMO care today. These conservative folks know its harming folks, and think that is just the cost of doing business, and that those adversely affected need to just learn to suck up the injustice and move on.Show less
Linda Ayres Thanks Darren…. very eloquently stated, and very educational for those who just don’t know. Those who just don’t care are another story all together.
I also believe that while the laws in Australia may be similar to those in the USA and Canada, the personal experiences from 20+ years ago are not the same as the terrors that Injured Workers today are subjected to. Even in California, each year it seems to get worse and worse, and I think David did a post a while back about ‘yeah, everybody hates lawyers….’
Let’s hope that some of the “10,540” members in this group will add some thoughts.
This particular post was prompted because of plea for help from a devasted kicked-to-the-curb American Veteran, so when I say the attacks are off-topic, I mean it:
“Injured Worker / Disabled Veteran Asks:”
‘Who do I send my whistle blowing story to?’
You know the old saying, “If I were to remain silent, I would be guilty of complicity”… Einstein.
Linda Ayres Further, the original post contained this text:
“An Injured Worker Without a Blog is UNARMED and UNPROTECTED in the WarOnWorkers. #Wow.”
Thought leaders of yesteryear reminded that the best way to get what YOU want is to help enough other people get what they want.
Blog 4 Freedom, Life, Liberty and Justice for All.
Contact your local bar association and see if they have any experts in MEDIATION AND STRUCTURED SETTLEMENTS. Volunteer your expertise at your local Legal Aid Society, National Lawyer’s Guild, ACLU or any other Friends of the Working Classes.
Blog Blog Blog Blog Blog and reach out and engage with WorkComp influencers, even if they are clearly adversarial, mean and deceptive and potentially dangerous…..
Study the strategies used by the White Rose Society in similar extermination circumstances. .
SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER AS IF YOUR VERY SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON IT.
Linda Ayres Thank you, both. I updated my blog on this thread to include your comments — every human needs to be better educated about WorkComp practices and dangers.https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/
Stories are still coming in from Injured Workers at What’s YOUR WorkComp Story?https://myworkcompcoach.com/whats-your-workcomp-story/
IF WCC can ‘cease and desist’ with the attacks, I can get back to compiling and rendering them anonymous and ready to publish. If not, so be it. What is is.
The Canadians know our plight, and I know there are groups of Injured Workers just like us, but better ‘armed’ with blogs, videos, database and more over there in Australia, too.
Anyhow, I’m glad we could participate in some small way to help enlighten fellow humans of the harsh realities that real people face.
THE LAWS ARE IN PLACE—- THE CARRIERS AND OTHERS NEED TO SIMPLY DO THEIR JOB OR FACE CONSEQUENCES FOR BREAKING THE LAWS AND CAUSING SO MUCH HARM TO SO MANY PEOPLE.
Reply to this conversation…Reply to this conversation…BLOG ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION…
Linda Ayres #DodgeTheRads and have a nice day. Thanks for sharing.