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Do Not Tumble Dry as the thread at each hem, cuff and join was mindlessly cut by the seamstress's three children, each of whom would fume at the wasted labour when your shirt is shrunk, unwearable and discarded.
100% cotton, as 100% as the love she has for her children – the same love that drives her to work herself into a sad lonely insanity in a garage at the back of her three bedroom house in suburbia.
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And to think that once upon a time we thought this only occurred in China! Men, Women and Children living in Australia are increasingly becoming victims of forced labour as economic necessity forces them to work long hours for so little money! Open up your eyes Australia (or better still... open up those suburban garages) and see the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
... and despite that, the pastures continue to look very green in Australia (at least in Melbourne):
http://www.economist.com/markets/rankings/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8908454
The amazing blindness with which we encounter life is shameful!
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