“Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.”

—  Louise Rennison , book Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Source: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

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