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    The Cookout
    The Cookout
    The Cookout
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    The Cookout

    By Ashley Bradley

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    It took Diana three months to get the ring. Three months of gagging on a sticky dick that has grits on it sometimes. Whatever, he'd been paying all her bills and buying her Taco Bell literally every day since they met, so it was a small, very disgusting price to pay.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAshley Bradley
    Release dateMay 29, 2017
    ISBN9781386404040
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      The Cookout - Ashley Bradley

      The Cookout

      Ashley Bradley

      Diana thought she'd never find a husband after she got herpes from that gangbang. She also got HPV, but HPV didn't show up on your face the morning of a big job interview at McDonald's, causing the hiring manager to say she could have a job, but only if she worked in the back, away...from everyone. Diana needed that job to pay for Netflix and this subscription food box that just sends you lasagna. Lasagna Box. It's just a box full of lasagna and it cost her seventy-five dollars a month. She needed the money, but she didn't feel she needed to be disrespected just because she was desperate. The back of McDonald's? Why when she started working there was the back just a closet with a bucket of rice and then her manager instructed her to use it like a litter box??? So anyway, she never mentioned the HPV. Everyone has HPV. Oprah has HPV probably. Hopefully.

      Diana actually met Marvin at her job. There were always all these geeks that'd come in around lunch hour and order Filet-O-Fishes and ask if they could have orange juice. Diana had been allowed to work

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