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Euphemisms and Obfuscations
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4-13-2007 4:02 PM
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Renaming and Relabeling. How to speak so that you don't offend.
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4-14-2007
10:52 AM
strider72
Actually, I see Home Schooling as a method protecting or insulating children from government/socialist indoctrination.
(...and I'm not even remotely religious!
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