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Outlook Weekend: Curses

Life in an anti-gay church, a sanitary pad designer accused of black magic, and the uncontrollable swearing caused by Tourette's syndrome

Megan Phelps-Roper was born into the Westboro Baptist Church believing that AIDS was God's curse for being gay.

Arunachalam Muruganantham took it upon himself to radically improve the way women in rural India deal with their so-called monthly curse ... their periods.

Jess Thom has Tourette's syndrome which causes her to have uncontrollable verbal tics in which curse-words feature heavily.

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27 minutes

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Mon 31 Jul 2017 00:32GMT

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  • Sat 29 Jul 2017 07:32GMT
  • Mon 31 Jul 2017 00:32GMT

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