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Silk from Ashes

April 23, 2012
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Find out how the women in Dubrovnik, after enduring bombing, siege and starvation, were able to transmute ashes into a source of dignity and independence — with a little help from 11,640 insect eggs hidden in one courageous woman’s cleavage.

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