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gerogie2

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7. If the shoe fits then the BBC should wear it

Reply to Gormy Cuss (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:25 PM

Jun 2014

You're just repeating tabloid lies about not having a burial. 22 children died a month from disease over about forty years. Sorry but they didn't have vaccines or anti-biotics until well into the fifties.

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No, I was repeating what the BBC reported. Gormy Cuss Jun 2014 #8

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