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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Maintenance Man

Posted by James Gurney at Sunday, November 08, 2009
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Labels: Pencil Sketching

2 comments:

Jenea said...

Good humourist!

November 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Stephen James. said...

Very amusing.

November 14, 2009 at 4:51 PM

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