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Sprinkling red brick dust creates safe barriers

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Finely crushed masonry is the ultimate repellant against terrible neighbors. Sweeping a thick line of red brick dust across a doorway was historically trusted to create an impassable geometric wall that users of malice simply could not step over.

Sprinkling red brick dust creates safe barriers
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