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The Reason Why We Can’t Wear White After Labor Day

By Victor Omondi It’s a scared rule not to wear white after labor day, and even though not many people know how the rule came to be, everyone holds on to it. Just to show how serious it is, in the 1994 movie Serial Mom, Patty Hearst‘s character was killed by a punctilious psychopath for […]

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