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In response to the allegations against Jessica Polly, she responded with no comment.

Thank you so much for listening. You think you know me, you don't know me well at all.

You think you know me, you don't know me well at all, at all, at all, at all, at all at all

at all

you don't know you don't know anybody. Here's Lauren's mom.

I didn't know about Brody until she had been talking to him for two years.

I feel like the reason she took so long to tell me was because deep down, she knew something was not right.

Deep down, and she knew that I would call her out on it.

Lauren came to visit us, and Jess came with her and her son, and they were standing in our

house a couple of days.

This is so weird because I'm usually an excellent judge of character.

I usually am, but when I met Jess, I really liked her. I thought

she was so nice and funny and she was just a lot of fun. We would all laugh and talk that night.

And I thought, oh, she's really nice. I really like her. My mom, on the other hand, who was living

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