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Read politically correct bedtime stories expanded edition with a new story. Politically correct bedtime stories book by james finn garner. One day her mother asked her to take a basket of fresh fruit and mineral water to her grandmothers housenot because this was womyns work, mind you, but because the deed. Today well be reading the story of little red riding hood.
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