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True Dough

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2. The young man pictured

Reply to Spazito (Original post)

Mon Jul 26, 2021, 05:19 PM

Jul 2021

was most definitely not named "Tom Torlino" upon entering the institution. That was a recreation of his identity by the ethnocentric government, as was his image "makeover."

It was all about assimilation.

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