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This is painfully brilliant, showing an injured woman and her children — note her black eye and bruises and their band-aids — using the absent husband’s booze supply to create a defensive barrier. Note the looks of pleasure on their faces as the boy smashes the bottles, his sister mixes the cement and their triumphant mother plants yet another repelling spike into a wall that he will never be able to breach.
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