The authors, identical twin sisters called Charlotte and Harriet Childress, "are researchers and consultants on social and political issues, " whatever that means, according to their Post shirttail bio.
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In the 1840s, an English author famously wrote that if every person in China lengthened his shirttail by a foot, British cotton mills would work around the clock.
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