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My sister-in-law, “Marie” has a habit of making insulting comments about overweight people when she is out with her ...

Unfortunately, it worked too well. Stuart took off into the wild blue yonder, never to be seen again. We found this out when the kids came running into the family room where Jennifer and I were ...