Well actually
it's because Robert Reed, who played the dad, is dead.
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Tony Macaroni hello,
Mon 16 Feb 2009, 14:43,
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crossed my mind too
he caught the aids. because cindy is a dirty, dirty whore.
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Foxglove -- it all ends in tears anyway...,
Mon 16 Feb 2009, 14:54,
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