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Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality

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1. That is a really cute caravan, but I wish media would understand the slur in the word "gypsy".

Sat Oct 18, 2014, 11:26 PM

Oct 2014

Romani is the correct word to call these travelers. I found a rather crude but amusing blog post explaining it. I do not know this person or their other posts. http://myjourneymythoughts.tumblr.com/post/18929758502/to-all-you-hipsters-in-the-gypsy-tag

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