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Since the wedding, she explained that her family wanted her to keep the peace, but she was not going to budge.

  Since the wedding, she explained that her family wanted her to keep the peace, but she was not going to budge. "I don't want to give my hard-earned money to horrid people ," she said. "Now I am getting texts, DM's, and Whatsapp, and my phone is just blowing up. I refuse to talk to A until she gets her husband to apologize, and she is trying. He just won't." In response to the story, more than 1.4K comments reacted to overwhelmingly side with the woman for leaving the wedding packages ."NTA [not the a******]," said one reply. "Tell them you needed the money to replace the dress that they ruined.""If you wore a white dress or anything looking like a wedding dress I'd say it deserved, but that's not the case here. I would of taken my gift back as well," another reply said. Another commenter said: "You go girl," while one Redditor wrote: "In my opinion, M's family is a bunch of racist bullies. A bunc...
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On my last afternoon visiting the Tsimane in Anachere,

  On my last afternoon visiting the Tsimane in Anachere,  one of Deonicio Nate’s daughters, Albania, 13, tells us that her father and half-brother Alberto, 16, are back from hunting and that they’ve got something. We follow her to the cooking hut and smell the animals before we see them—three raccoonlike coatis have been laid across the fire, fur and all.  As the fire singes the coatis’ striped pelts, Albania and her sister, Emiliana, 12, scrape off fur until the animals’ flesh is bare. Then they take the carcasses to a stream to clean and prepare them for roasting. Nate’s wives are cleaning two armadillos as well, preparing to cook them in a stew with shredded plantains. Nate sits by the fire, describing a good day’s hunt. First he shot the armadillos as they napped by a stream. Then his dog spotted a pack of coatis and chased them, killing two as the rest darted up a tree. Alberto fired his shotgun but missed. He fired again and hit a coati. Three coatis and two armadi...
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