sugarplum

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As for your sweet sugarplum -- well with teeny tiny nibble-able toes like those, who WOULDN'T agree that she's sweeter than sugar?

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  • If this boy doesn't make you want to explode with joy & excitement, if thoughts of him DON'T dance like sugarplums in your head, if the mere mention of his name doesn't fill your body with fireworks, if you don't spend hours daydreaming about your future together … then you'll be happier doing your own thing, sugarplum. —  galadarling.com
  • Perhaps your home is blessed with young children; children who slept fitfully through sugarplum dreams in the hopes of hearing hooves on the roof last night. —  CBC | Top Stories News
  • Kringle and UET union president Binky McGiggles presented a draft emergency bailout plan to the committee calling for US $18 trillion in federal grants, loan guarantees, and sugarplum gumdrops that they said would keep the company solvent through December 26. —  iowahawk
  • As for your sweet sugarplum -- well with teeny tiny nibble-able toes like those, who WOULDN'T agree that she's sweeter than sugar? —  Uterine Wars
  • Taking the stage, alongside a platoon of session men riffing for their supper while the boys do their tumbling act, are walk-ons like grinning, dusted sugarplum Demi Lovato and Miss Taylor Swift, singing her jilted, avenging-angel "Should've Said No." —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
 

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