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The Cultural Significance of Dead Whores

by John C. Goodman


The powerless, the disenfranchised, the beaten, the wretched. The needy, the impoverished, the desperate, the dirty, the shame. The secret shame of ourselves…

The Cultural Significance of Dead Whores
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