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Best Of VA Missed Connections June 2 – June 8

by Marilyn Drew Necci | RICHMOND NEWS, WTF?!

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections here in Richmond where it is hot as hell and in the year of our lord 2021 some people still don't know what Belle Isle is called. "Bells Island" is a good guess, I suppose, but your fifth grade teacher is still marking it...

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