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AMONG other things, Dolly Parton is famous for her mammary glands — so much so that Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary gland cell and was named after the country star.
In tribute, Dolly fans Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit, cloned in matching denim shorts and hybrid human-sheep blonde wigs, spend half of this show wearing pink vests that have two holes from which their nipples protrude.
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