I've lost the plot here entirely, if one ever existed. Impressions: I'm sorry, did I miss in a previous episode that Adonis's father's name is "Tom Collins"? Boy, I can't wait to meet "Sex on the Beach." Oh, and he was killed by Belle's substitute father figure noble dude at some random point off […]
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