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Just lather that’s all by Hernando Tellez is a story about a man who owns a barbershop in Colombia. The barber himself is a rebel and comes face to face with the captain of the army which he kill rebels for living. Just lather that’s all demonstrates several stressful elements in which the barber demonstrates such as conflict, plot, and characterization.

Just lather that’s all is situated in Colombia where army members kill rebels for living. In Bogotá there is a member of the rebels who owns a barbershop, he gets info from the civilians that he cuts undercover. The captain of the army is in charge of taking on the rebels, some say that he is ruthless. [...]“the day he ordered the whole town to file into the patio of the school to see the
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