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Birthday ecard: i wanted to buy you an expensive gift but then we would have been manipulated by consumerism (and this wrongcard was free). Ecard image showing: i wanted to buy you an expensive gift but then we would have been manipulated by consumerism (and this wrongcard was free).
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Published on 9 May 2008

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