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Last week my sister was over with her almost 6-year-old son. We were talking in the living room when we realized we hadn’t seen him for more than 10 minutes. We found him in our bedroom, and discovered he had gotten into our desk and our chest of drawers. The contents of both had been pulled out and were scattered everywhere.

Included in the mess was our sex toys. (My wife and I don’t have any kids, and we have a drawerful of sex toys in our chest of drawers in our bedroom.) Well, my sister was furious. She said she was never allowing our nephew to set foot in our house again and took him home. Frankly, I think my nephew is old enough to know better than to go into someon

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