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The slick, highly shiny pages of high-end lifestyle periodicals are cleanly achieved by heavily coating the paper with extremely fine layers of kaolin clay.
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The absolute only reason glossy periodicals exist is to forcefully cram massive amounts of extremely lucrative advertising directly into your waiting hands.
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