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Amancio Williams
2013
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Some People Have to Suffer
Duration: 0 h 42 m | 1976
Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20 years later the sewer system has yet to be built.
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