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HIDDEN LIFE

t’s a sort of shameful secret that people don’t really like talking about,” says Georgia Oakley, referring to Section 28, the British-made legislation that forms the backdrop of her feature debut . Enacted a year after then-PM Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 re-election campaign, when she stated that “children are being

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