No girls allowed. Impressions: It's difficult to understate how utterly shamelessly transparent an advertisement this is, although the sequence where they handcraft every single wafer and then insert the collectable stickers with precision and loving care certainly gets close. And then they deliver these packages of processed sugar crap to a convenience store located […]
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