“When I was just a little girl in East Bay, California, I noticed that East Bay was pig Latin for “beast.” But I knew I had found my niche when I realized that Alice Faye was pig Latin for "phallus."”

—  Robert Patrick (playwright)

" Pouf Positive"
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