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The Norwegian Tourist and Yogev

Yoge's plan is to get high and go pick girls on the beach. He did with his brother once. Got lit and went down to the promenade and came home with a norwegian tourist. Normally he wouldn't have the bolls to talk to a girl like that, especially not in english. But the molly made you feel powerful. Yogev doesn't move. This is the first time he's done molly, and it's always the same thing. Then he takes a sheet, the stuff goes to his head only after he drops the load. The basrooms at the beach are all wet and stinky, and there's never any paper. Even when

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