听电影学英语-食品公司 01

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听电影学英语-断背山5

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【断背山】05

Ennis, please, no more damn lonesome ranches for us, she said, sitting onhis lap, wrapping her thin, freckled arms around him. Lets get a place herein town? I guess, said Ennis, slipping his hand up her blouse sleeve and stirring thesilky armpit hair

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