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A Bear's Story

A Bear's Story

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2003
0h 20m
8.0(1 votes)
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When a gay man is invited to what he mistakenly thinks is a pool party benefit to "Save the Polar Bears" he discovers that not all gay men go for sleek, svelte younger men and his social and sex lives improve immensly.

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