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  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

04 Jul 2025 • 4 min read
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2015 tweet: “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party

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eighty-six / 86

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