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You’ve Got a Long Way to Go, Baby!
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Pre-vention, Inter-vention, or Fixin’
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South African Hair Affairs
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Beauty and The Beast
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Face Fat or Belly Fat; That is the Question
It seems that life is all about trade-offs. You just can’t have things both ways. For most matters, we’re pretty used to these trade-offs. We know we can either spend our money or save our money. We trade freedom for companionship when we enter into a romantic partnership. We accept that we have to forfeit […]
Leakage and Shrinkage
We live in an era of name changes. The reasons for name-changing vary, but some are quite baffling to me. Let’s see, the “trash man” is no longer the trash man. Now he’s a “waste management worker.” A woman who stays at home rather than going to a job somewhere else used to be called […]