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What I Learned When Abercrombie Hired Me to Be a F***able Model

CLOTHES DON’T MAKE THE MAN

Emell Adolphus was one of thousands of Abercrombie’s mall models who were promised a fantasy of stardom and status, but he soon discovered the dark truth behind the illusion.

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