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More Things Parents Just Don’t Understand

Mother: What did you say? He’s a professor of cold-cut studies?
Daughter: No, mom! He’s a professor of Holocaust studies!

–74th & 3rd

  • Posted on May 23, 2006
  • Manhattan, Parents, Upper East Side
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