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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

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Julie Burchill
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 3
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Frenchay
Gloucestershire
Often
Accompaniment
Stripping
Shameful
Covering
Behaviour
Truly

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