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Offline m1469

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If you were born here and never leaving...
on: March 17, 2014, 04:00:26 AM
Who would you be? 
What would you do to be "happy"?   
What do you think your "dreams" would/could be?

I am genuinely curious.



 
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Offline j_menz

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #1 on: March 17, 2014, 05:24:17 AM


I'd be the one on the rakishly angled top hat, otherwise you get the idea.
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Offline joplinfreak

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #2 on: March 17, 2014, 05:27:39 AM
Not the beautiful scantly dressed women?  ;D

Offline outin

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #3 on: March 17, 2014, 05:46:22 AM
I might be something like this

Offline ahinton

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #4 on: March 17, 2014, 10:25:24 AM
Who would you be? 
What would you do to be "happy"?   
What do you think your "dreams" would/could be?

I am genuinely curious.

Where is "here", by the way? It could be in quite a few places...

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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #5 on: March 17, 2014, 11:53:32 AM
That is Gravesend East Side where the immigrants live.

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #6 on: March 17, 2014, 12:12:20 PM
That is Gravesend East Side where the immigrants live.
How come m1469 managed to get this photograph, then?

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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #7 on: March 17, 2014, 01:23:04 PM
Errr, google images perhaps. Shutterstock??
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Offline ahinton

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Re: If you were born here and never leaving...
Reply #8 on: March 17, 2014, 04:11:02 PM
Errr, google images perhaps. Shutterstock??
But, if so, would that have identified the area concerned as part of Gravesend?

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