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She’s updated the play’s setting to 1950s England, a similar-in-spirit era in which well-bred women were kept domesticated.

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The same goes for Halle Berry, whose dumb ex, former baseball player David Justice, recently went on a podcast and claimed he left her because the actress wasn’t sufficiently domesticated for his tastes.

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Wild donkeys are descended from domesticated donkeys left behind by California gold miners more than a century ago.

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And no matter how hard wildlife officials try to direct them toward their natural prey, the wolves seem to find the domesticated cattle wandering through open pastures a lot more appealing.

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To start, they’re believed to be the first domesticated food crop, with their earliest cultivation dating back 10,000 years in the Fertile Crescent.

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