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In the sympathy sweepstakes, Machboos Woman trumps God-bothering millennial

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

Sentinelese tribe
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Sentinelese people have made their feelings about outsiders clear for 60,000 years with bows and arrows but John Allen Chau, an American missionary, decided against wisdom

Mitali Saran
Did you read about the Moroccan woman who got mad that her boyfriend of seven years had decided to leave her to marry someone else? According to the report she ‘lost her temper’, chopped him up, and cooked him into a biryani-like meal called machboos, which she served to some construction workers. It was the perfect crime…almost. L’Affaire Machboos was discovered only after several months, when the victim’s brother searched the woman’s flat and found a human tooth in her blender, after which she confessed to police.

Mitron, who amongst us has blood so sluggish that we haven’t desired to

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