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sabrina 1

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11. Those passages can never be posted enough. We know that because we still have people defending

Reply to Maedhros (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 02:53 PM

Feb 2015

the very same practices described in them.

'Never forget' seems to have been forgotten. Our species isn't very smart it appears. We do seem to keep repeating the past. And when you remind people of that, they seem not to want to hear about it.

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