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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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Last on
Mon 31 Jul 201700:32GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet
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