Ms. HAMAMA ABUBACKAR (Resident, Saint-Denis): (Through translator) Before you couldn't even talk on your cell phone in public because of the hoodlums around here - and believe me, there are plenty of them - wouldn't hesitate to just grab it from you and hit you.

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Still, I've learned over the years not to dismiss something that doesn't immediately win me over. (In fact, when I think something is really out of style like I wouldn't be caught dead wearing it that's probably when it's just about to hit the runways.) After all, isn't that a good designer's job?

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But it kind of hit me that that kind of work shouldn't be just the realm of spreadsheet geeks.

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