March 26, 2007

Medical Examiner: Anna Nicole Died of Accidental Overdose

On Monday morning, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger revealed former reality TV star and Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith died from a drug overdose.

Tiger also said there was no evidence of foul play and that the overdose was accidental.

The medical examiner's office had said on March 7 that the cause of Smith's death had been determined, but it would not be announced for one to two weeks to give police time to finish the investigation.

Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper wanted to make sure none of the investigators' findings change any of his own findings, his office said then.

Tiger said the Anna Nicole Smith case is now officially closed.

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On 6 Apr 2007, Jean Louise wrote:

In re DCD’s comment. Heretofore Howard K. Stern shall be known as HOWARD THE COWARD.
Jean Louise
O’Fallon, MO

 
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On 5 Apr 2007, Donni-Jay wrote:

Let’s try again, and see if this is uncensored!

FIRST QUESTION; Who gave Anna that last injection of drugs?

SECOND QUESTION; Who is the father?

THIRD QUESTION; Why is the doctor still practising, who helped to kill Anna?

 
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On 5 Apr 2007, Donni-Jay wrote:


I just wondered how many others have received this particular message?

Your comment has been received and held for approval by the blog owner.

It means of course that your comment will not be allowed. So what is the point in having an opinion?

 
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On 5 Apr 2007, Barb wrote:

What a joke! This is so out of control. The courts and lawyers are playing such a game and making money at Dannielynn’s expence. The DNA should of been done months ago. Dannielynn needs to know who is the father. Jerry Springer would of had this figured out on his one hour show. LOL. Howard should give his DNA and if he isn’t (which he probable isn’t) the father, the baby should be out of there and with Anna’s family until the father is found. At least she would be with REAL family. It could of all been settled in a week. Then if Larry is the father, he has to prove he is fit to raise his daughter? Howard is fit? Ha. He is being looked at as murder and getting drugs for Anna. Then Howard flushing drugs down the toilet when Danniel died. Hmmmmmmm.
So, what will this do in other custody hearings? Will everyone have to go through this in the future? Or is this the only case. Which is not fair to Dannielynn and Larry or Anna’s family.
Are parents loosing their rights just because there is money to be made? Maybe we should be looking at the bigger picture here.

 
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On 4 Apr 2007, Donni-Jay wrote:

To make a statement like “Howard killed Anna” is terrible. He has already been questioned in court, and he has not been accused of that. It seems Howard was an enabler, but the doctors gave all those prescriptions.

After reading all the drugs Anna was on, I am amazed that she lasted this long.
But, the person who gave that last injection, Anna’s final drug does, while she was so ill, and really out of it, possibly not even needing these drugs or asking for them, either accidentally killed her, or did it on purpose.

So why is it that whoever gave that last injection has not even been named? There is something very strange there, as in any other similar case, this information would have been ‘Exhibit A’ So what is going on here?

It looks as if it has all finished now, so it have been covered up. The truth may never come out.

And as for the paternity test, why has the father not been named by now?

Another very strange thing is why haven’t we seen or heard from Zsa Zsa Gabor, considering that her husband has admitted to having an affair with Anna, for two years, and undergone a DNA test to see is he is the baby’s father? Zsa Zsa, is usually so hungry for publicity, and now, she stays hidden. Maybe she is really shamed for the first time!

 
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On 3 Apr 2007, Anonymous wrote:

Howard killed Anna
Larry is the father

 
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On 3 Apr 2007, Ziggy wrote:

Take people responsible for her and her son death to the full justice system.
I smell the rat, too.
Ziggy

 
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On 2 Apr 2007, Jean Louise wrote:

People, please.

There have been so many spins on the death of Anna Nicole and her son that it makes me dizzy.

You do not have to be an Einstein to fit this puzzle together.

First of all, the fact that Danny’s fears about his mother were so on target that it is eerie. Danny was on the right track when he contacted the private detective. Danny smelled a rat and that rat was Stern.

Stern is a textbook sociopath and control freak. The first thing these people do is to isolate their victim. Then they brainwash them into believing that no one else cares about them and that he is the only true friend that cares about them. Stern did both of these things.

It is not unusual for an addict to be in denial and to be easily influenced into saying and behaving in a self-destructive manner. And it almost always reduces their self-esteem to zero.

When Anna Nicole was spewing out her venom about her mother my response is this: if she hated her mother so much, why did she personally phone her mother to notify her of Danny’s death? If you recall, Anna also referred to her mother as fat. That has Stern written all over it. After all, Anna spent a good deal of her adult life being overweight.

Virgie and Danny had their hands on the pulse of the matter. Virgie said that Anna’s last word after telling her of Danny’s death, was “help.” Virgie also said that the phone line was abruptly disconnected and that she could not get through to Anna when she tried to phone back.

If Anna indeed hated her mother so much, why wouldn’t she just have allowed her mom to find out about Danny’s death through the media? Why the phone contact? I’ll tell you why, when the chips are down we all want our mother.

Stern’s people hung up on Danny and hung up on Virgie. Again, he was controlling and isolating her in her time of need. He would console her all by himself. No room for Virgie.
Virgie’s words to her daughter via the media were ominous to say the least. Remember when she warned Anna to be careful that she may be next. How scarrie is that?

Danny’s nightmare about seeing his mother in a coffin was also ominous.

The now famous clown video taken by Stern just ices the cake for me. What kind of a monster is Stern to video the woman that was supposedly the love of his life in this pitiful condition? If you recall, Danny was not only frightened of Stern, but also stated that Stern was giving his mother mind altering drugs, ergo Stern’s cavalier reference to the ‘magic mushrooms.’ And what about Stern’s words that this could bring them money. Stern will more than likely make a clean getaway, but he, like OJ, killed Danny and Anna.

I felt so sorry for Danny. That kid loved his mom and wanted to step up to the plate and be given the chance to be a man. He wanted to nurse his mother back to good health, but was stoppped dead in his tracks! Stern made sure that would never happen on his watch.

If it wasn’t bad enough that Stern isolated and brainwashed Anna Nicole, he also plied her with many magic mushrooms in the form of prescription drugs and only God knows what else.

Truthfully, I’m surprised that Stern hasn’t been stoned to death for shooting that clown video. Believe it or not, that video haunts me and I don’t even know these people.

Stern is a real piece of work and I shudder to think of him having custody of that innocent baby girl.

Stern loved Anna so very much that he left his dying Anna in the hotel room and left her alone to go shopping for a yacht. What a guy!

Her private nurse was probably engrossed playing free cell on the computer.

And what was her doctor friend thinking? Why wouldn’t she have insisted that Anna be taken to the hospital? Maybe she was downstairs gambling or maybe she accompanied Stern to shop for that yacht that they all would be enjoying.

The truth is that Anna’s peeps let her down and the only people that gave a damn was her son and her mother.

I have a question for doctors and pharmacists. Can something that seems so innocent and innocuous as Benadryl be the culprit that killed both Danny and Anna? I have hunch that the Benadryl that was added with the anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs, along with God knows what else they were given, was the silent killer. Benadryl, after all, is a good drug, or is it?

Anna’s last Larry King interview, with Stern at her side was very revealing. Larry asked Stern if he was the significant other (paraphrasing) and Stern said, “I wish.” Also Larry King commented a couple of times about Anna’s weight loss. She answered that it was too much and that she was too thin. I have a hunch about this too. I think she was very weak and in a battle for her life because of the many, many,drugs. Stern probably liked her thin and more than likely kept encouraging her to lose weight. I wonder why Larry King didn’t make some comment about this. She said it more than once.

I pray that at least one of the people that was allegedly watching over her comes forward and tells the whole truth.

Jean Louise
O’Fallon, MO

 
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On 31 Mar 2007, Anonymous wrote:

I seriously believe that Larry is ths father of the baby…i mean just look the 2 have the same nose lol…wtf is taking so long on getting a dna done…SHEESH!

 
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On 30 Mar 2007, Donni-Jay wrote:

This is to the anonymous person who made the comments below, which represented his opinion, but did not pertain to mine. I wanted to know why it has not come out WHO gave that last fatal injection? WHO? A doctor, the nurse, or her bodyguard, or Howard? Someone must have answered to being this person? WHY has it been kept a secret? And, WHY has the media not made more out of this?

Prescription drugs or not, it was this last injection that brought about the demise of Anna. She had a mix of too many drugs. It could have been a higher dose than was usual for her, or her normal mixture of drugs, and probably was not meant to kill her, BUT IT DID!

But, as it was the mixture of drugs that killed her, whoever gave her that last injection also killed her. By accident or not, that person killed her. So WHY HAS IT NOT BEEN RELEASED WHO KILLED HER? Does anyone know if a name has been given, or is it still a big secret?

And, Mr Anonymous, we all know that the medical profession make many mistakes, and also, some miracles. Too many people rely on drugs, but we do not need a lecture here. I was not talking about that.

So, as for this part of your comment; (And by the way, my name is Donni-Jay)

“Donna, if doctors had not PRESCRIBED the medication FOR the injection there would be no question of WHO gave it to Anna, because there would have been NO injections to give would there?” END OF QUOTE.

My reply to this is; We all know they were prescription drugs given to Anna, but she took them mostly herself. On this occasion the intake of drugs were by injection, and someone gave the shot to her. Just before she died, SO, WHO WAS IT? That is all I’m asking here. A simple question! Someone must know, why don’t WE, the public know that?
And then this next bit from Mr Anonymous;Quote:

“Howard was doing as Anna wanted yet again when he went out to buy the boat. That was the ONLY reason why they were in Florida-to buy a boat. But he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.” END OF QUOTE

I say to this, that Howard would have known how very ill Anna was, and she would not have been able to insist that he left that day for any reason. What makes Mr Anonymous say Anna told Howard to go? And, anyway, he could have pretended to, but could have stayed near, in case Anna needed him.

AND, to answer that other silly comment by Mr Anonymous, (and why did he think this might have been a good enough reason for a nurse not to have common sense?)that Anna said they were not to call 911, as she had had enough of publicity. For heaven’s sake! When the woman was so ill, and obviously got worse, it was common sense she would have wanted her life saved.

THERE IS NO GOOD REASON FOR 911 not to have been called when her temperature started soaring. Anna was in no state to know. OR to protest!

Come on people! Don’t you all want to know WHO gave that final injection of death??? Are you all not the least bit interested in this vital point?

And, please if you reply to my comment, keep to the topic of the perpetrator of that final injection, and don’t ramble about related events, as they have all been well and truly covered in this site.

 
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On 30 Mar 2007, Jennifer wrote:

DCD- I think Anonymous is Howard K. Stern. Otherwise he would have the guts to use is real name. COWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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On 30 Mar 2007, DCD wrote:

Are you a doctor Anonymous? Or just a know it all?

 
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On 30 Mar 2007, Anonymous wrote:

Donna, if doctors had not PRESCRIBED the medication FOR the injection there would be no question of WHO gave it to Anna, because there would have been NO injections to give would there?

Why is it so hard for people to place blame on the mainstream medical crisis this country faces with more doctor errors, hospital errors, and blatant over-prescribing that results in more needless deaths then any other human illness combined?

If Anna had died from an overdose from a street drug everyone would be hunting for the street drug dealer. But make those lethal drugs so-called “legal” prescription drugs and everyone wants to place blame on everyone, and everything, BUT the offending drug companies, and the drug pushing doctors.

Anna herself gave strict orders to not call 911 because she had had enough bad publicity and was sick of the negative “spotlight” after Daniel’s death compounded with all the frivolous lawsuits she was dealing with at the time. Have you forgotten they blamed HER and not just Howard for Daniel’s death? Daniel died from methadone and two antidepressants. Anna was given a prescription for Methadone. Antidepressants are linked to suicide. Anna was ALSO there when Daniel died. Ever think Howard tried to cover for Anna? Indeed.

Those issues above were literally killing Anna and the toxic, highly addictive PRESCRIPTION drugs given by her DOCTORS PRESCRIPTIONS finished her off.

Howard was doing as Anna wanted yet again when he went out to buy the boat. That was the ONLY reason why they were in Florida-to buy a boat. But he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.

All these people crying to the press that Howard fed her drugs and making claims they saw this, or that, are JUST as guilty if you want to blame family and friends for what the doctors precriptions did to Anna. They were there TOO. IF they really saw anything then Why didn’t THEY put an end to her drug abuse? Why didn’t THEY save her if she meant that much to them?

Give us all a break please and place the blame on this broken system called mainstream medicine that uses toxic chemicals to attack a biological body and thinks it can ever affect healing of any kind.

Street drugs or legal drugs will NEVER heal us. The pain that drove people to them will always be waiting for them when they wear off and the problems will still be unresolved so what good did they do but zombyfy a person so their issues could pile up to the point of a mental break down?

 
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On 29 Mar 2007, Donni-Jay wrote:

Who gave Anna that injection in the buttocks? She could not have done that herself, with a temperature of 105, and the nurse was watching her, so she would have seen who did it. And, the nurse should have got Anna into hospital because of her high temperature anyway!

OR, was it the nurse who gave that final injection of drugs? Was that why she called her husband Moe, instead of 911? Is that why Moe didn’t phone 911 before calling Howard?

It is indeed suspicious that it has not been said who punctured Anna, and administered that final lethal dose of drugs. Now WHY hasn’t more been made of this and the culprit named? It has been swept under the rug, when it could easily be a murder case.

It does seem strange that Howard was out of the way that day, when he would have known Anna had a high temperature, and that she might need to be hospitalized. It is all very suspicious and the investigations have not been thorough enough here!

But, WHO gave Anna that lethal injection? There is a cover up obviously, and now the case is closed!!!

 
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On 29 Mar 2007, Anonymous wrote:

Howard Stern did not prescribe the deadly leathal combination of toxic drugs to Anna. The coroner already confirmed she was not forced medications either and he went further to state that the bitterness of the sleeping drug she took, would have been detected in any food or drink. That same sleeping drug that when combined with the NUMEROUS toxic drugs her doctors had her on KILLED her.

We can keep the witch hunt going and publically condemn and innocent man or we can look at the facts and save many other lives.

LOOK at the mainstream medical association and their toxic drug peddlers the doctors if you want to put rightful blame on the core cause of what took Anna’s life. Until then millions of more innocents will continue to suffer from this same syatem of causing needless death.

At least 1.5 million Americans are sickened, injured or killed each year by errors in prescribing, dispensing and taking medications, the influential Institute of Medicine concluded in a major report. June 2006

Common errors include doctors writing prescriptions that could interact dangerously with other drugs a patient is taking, nurses putting the wrong medication — or the wrong dose — in an intravenous drip and pharmacists dispensing 100-milligram pills rather than the prescribed 50-milligram dose.

Based on past studies, the panel estimated that drug errors cause at least 400,000 preventable injuries and deaths in hospitals each year, more than 800,000 in nursing homes and facilities for the elderly, and 530,000 among Medicare recipients treated in outpatient clinics. The report said the actual numbers are probably much higher.

These data, already alarming, become even more preoccupying when considering that, as the article highlights, 50%-96% of adverse events are not reported. These data indicate that preventable deaths from errors in medical management have reached endemic proportions, and that the extent of the injury is largely underestimated.

Multiple physician involvement in medical management of elderly patients and potentially inappropriate drug combinations:

This study shows that the prevalence of a potentially inappropriate drug combination (PIDC) in a population of elderly Medicare patients ranged from 4% to 20.3%. The greater the number of physician involved in patient care, the higher the risk of PIDC.

Anna had many doctors who were all so “personally” involved in her life that we should all find it terribly hard to believe they did not see what she was on by other doctors. The one doctor went on a Gay parade float with her, and was seen at nightclubs with her, and the other doctor who was feeding her precriptions, was seen in home videos with her and the new baby. These doctors KNEW what they were giving her. They KNEW her state of mind, and most people today KNOW that antidepressants cause suicide. They threw in a drug cocktail mixture in her that few would survive from with a healthy immune system and sound mind, much less a mother who just lost her son, had a baby, and faced numerous lawsuits.

All those doctors need their license pulled as an example to the other toxic peddlers that we have had enough of sacraficing our health and LIFE for their pathetic profits.

 
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On 28 Mar 2007, Lily wrote:

Something’s not right here thats for sure. Howard deserves no break until it’s proven that he was NOT involved. I believe he loved Anna. But he was not good for her and he may have contributed to her death. The Nurse and Bodyguard are very suspicious too. It’s sad that no one could help her.

 
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On 27 Mar 2007, Anonymous wrote:

To Just the Facts:

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. In my haste I miscatagorized Vioxx.

What should have been more of a concern is how you completely glided over the FACT that prescription drugs are killing more of us then any so-called natural cause or any other form of death.
What is sad is that you appear to be far more concerned about the error of what “type” of drug Vioxx was and you completely do NOT get how these precription drugs are killing us.

Indeed Vioxx is a pain pill- not unlike NUMEROUS other pain killers that kill thousands of people each year, and make millions more addicted, Vioxx should not have been ignored for the serious side affects it renders people. Side affects like heart attacks and stroke that were WELL known to the drug company as seen during THEIR clinical trials BEFORE FDA approval. Clinical trials they then KEPT to themselves until so many people died from taking their deadly drug that they had to release them through a court ORDER. If this was a rare incident it would be one thing. But I have studied medicine for years and the sad thing is that this is the NORM for drug approval.

They Whitewash the serious side affects of their OWN clinical trials. They Protect at all cost the bottom line of the drug companies and ignore how they just shoved through another dangerous deadly drug for approval.

You did know that to date drug companies are still allowed to test their OWN drugs and use their OWN clinical trials for approval right? You were aware that by law they are not mandated to have an independent lab that has NO connection with that drug compnay to test their new products right?

Knowing this, how on earth do you think we will ever get a semblence of ANY safe drug from these companies?

They are allowing the fox to guard the chicken house and deaths like Anna’s and her son are just the canaries in the coal mine.

Statin drugs that ARE given for heart conditions -ARE just as dangerous and deadly to patients. Statin drugs are given to lower cholesterol and they also deplete CoQ10 that is much needed for a strong heart thus they CAUSE heart attacks.

Did you know a few decades ago they lowered the so-called acceptible levels for cholesterol so that millions of people would qualify for their cholesterol lowering drugs??

Deaths attributed to heart failure more than doubled from 1989 to 1997. (Statins were first given pre-market approval in 1987.)

25 to 30 years ago cholesterol levels were considered high only if they tested at 240 and higher.

After drug companies came up with the so-called new acceptible levels of cholesterol a patient only needed a cholesterol level of 200 and recently that level has been reduced to a dangerous low level of 180.

These lowered levels of so-called acceptible cholesterol ensured that over 40 MILLION more people would qualify for prescription drugs that doctors would make them think they had to be on for life.

Meanwhile, cholesterol is vital for proper BRAIN functioning. It plays a huge role in memory function and the intake of much needed hormones like seritonin. If cholesterol levels are too low the serotonin receptors cannot work. Cholesterol is the main organic molecule in the brain, constituting over half the dry weight of the cerebral cortex. More people die of LOW cholesterol then those who have so-called high cholesterol.

So what’s the trade off here for taking these dangerous precription drugs? NONE.

NOT ONE PERSON HAS EVER SUFFERED FROM A PRESCRIPTION DRUG DEFICIENCY. But millions suffer from nutitional deficiencies and much needed trace minerals and vitamins.

Again there are SAFE, non life threatening, alternatives to treat ROOT causes of illness for every life threatening, dangerous precription drug. But these natural choices cannot be patented thus drug companies cannot make billions in profits so they have ZERO interest in marketing them.

The sooner the public realizes they are but mere lab rats to these drugs companies the better off they will be.

The sooner they realize these dangerous drugs will NOT save their lives, rather they will shorten them, deplete vitality, and end their lives abruptly, the better off they will be.

The list is ENDLESS of precription drugs that cause far more HARM then the condition they were prescribed to treat. Enough already.

Anna and her son’s death should be a serious wake up call to the public to remember we will never be able to treat a human with dangerous chemicals and get any sense of good health from it. But we will continue to see many more innocents suffer until people start taking charge of their health and they demand that they get the BEST of health care choices that do not ask them to risk their lives to treat a pathetic symptom, rather they actually go after the root cause and get a cure.

 
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On 27 Mar 2007, redneckbabe wrote:

You people should give Howard a break! Everyone knows that a drug addict is not going to stop using unless they make a decision to.He told her all the time she was in danger and that did not matter because she was hooked. Like all celeberities they quit,go to rehab, & start using again because they did not make a consious decision to quit. Instead they were doing it for they’re persona or family members. Anna was going to die from drug use sooner or later. To accuse someone who loved her for many many years is just WRONG!!!! As far as Daniel goes, he was a 20 year old off at college. There’s no telling was he was dabbling in. They’re middle class to upper class high school & college kids getting high off of cold medicine and overdoseing (right under their parents nose) are you going to accuse these parents of killing them? Ya’ll should think before you speak!!!

 
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On 27 Mar 2007, redneckbabe wrote:

You people should give Howard a break! Everyone knows that a drug addict is not going to stop using unless they make a decision to.He told her all the time she was in danger and that did not matter because she was hooked. Like all celeberities they quit,go to rehab, & start using again because they did not make a consious decision to quit. Instead they were doing it for they’re persona or family members. Anna was going to die from drug use sooner or later. To accuse someone who loved her for many many years is just WRONG!!!! As far as Daniel goes, he was a 20 year old off at college. There’s no telling was he was dabbling in. They’re middle class to upper class high school & college kids getting high off of cold medicine and overdoseing (right under their parents nose) are you going to accuse these parents of killing them? Ya’ll should think before you speak!!!

 
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On 27 Mar 2007, Georgette Symonds wrote:

Am I the only person in America who is having a problem with Dr. Joshua Perper’s report? Have I crossed the line and now have become one of those crazy people who talk about conspiracies’?

I have a REAL problem with Anna Nicole’s nurse and bodyguard. How does a nurse walk in and see her patient unresponsive and not call 911 immediately! She calls her husband first and waits for his return?

By the nurse’s accounts she said she saw that there were blue marks on Anna’s body. Isn’t a nurse responsible for assessing her patient and upon seeing she was becoming mottled know her patient needed immediate medical help? The least that Dr. Joshua Perper should have done was question if her license should be taken away! The nurse then calls and waits for her husband… who is also by his words medically trained. Instead of calling Howard first he should have called 911. He says that it was only minutes but everyone KNOWS how import only a few seconds can be when a life is in the balance. Shouldn’t he be held responsible or chastised for such a mistake?

What were they all afraid of? That the public would know Anna Nicole was taking medications. Everyone who saw her being interviewed knew she had taken something. But I question who was giving her the medications. The injection in the left buttocks? I think we need to get the investigators from CSI on this. Where on the left buttocks? Could Anna have reached that spot herself so easily? Was she right handed like the majority of people?

Georgette Symonds
Author of “Look Not Upon Our Sins”
www.georgettesymonds.com

 
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