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Dec 2015
33m 14s

185 – Building the House of Wessex

Jamie Jeffers
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When we left off last time, we were taking a look at the problem facing Europe that no one wanted to talk about. And this wasn’t like plague of people mistaking tights for pants. In that situation, the only solution is to ignore it until it retreats back to the darkest recesses of fashion. The […]

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