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a hair shirt

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a hair shirt
if someone wears a hair shirt, they choose to make their life unpleasant by not having or experiencing anything that gives them pleasure I don't think you have to put on a hair shirt in order to be a socialist.
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DRESSED as I am in a hair shirt, it's most appropriate I start off with an apology.
The intention is not to urge Christians to get measured for a hair shirt but to rediscover how good and joyful a thing it is to dwell together in unity with everything else that lives.
I can't bring myself to wear a hair shirt - yes, they do exist).
 
 
 
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