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	Luxury cotton's true cost exposed

Socratoad

6-7-2008 10:28 PM

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6-8-2008 5:56 AM

ofcapri

Sorta like the capitalization of our own countries unfair labor practices from our past from our youth and different ethnic groups. Our own hands are not clean. Let thee without sin cast the first stone! How soon we forget!

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