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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Vada speaking and signing "purple"

Posted by Twilson9608 at Tuesday, January 01, 2013
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2 comments:

April Vernon said...

So sweet! GO VADA!!!

January 1, 2013 at 7:26 PM
Anna Theurer said...

Yay!!!! Go Vada go!

January 2, 2013 at 6:44 AM

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