Allan Sherman Quotes

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Allan Sherman

• Brother
• Daughter
• Books
• Rings
• Beatles
• T-shirt

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• There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Brother
  • Daughter
  • Books