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Are men pushing the grooming joke too far?

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A while back on her way to work aboard a mini-bus, Kate Amunga, a business lady in Nairobi, sat next to a man she found very strange.

“He looked extremely dapper in a dark suit. His cologne was so powerful that one would be forgiven for imagining he swum in it. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. I found him very strange because half way through the journey, in fact, on two occasions, he whipped out of his coat pocket a small shoe-brush which he used to shine his already shining shoes!”

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