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Perfectly Cromulent

They should teach that in school!

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Leslie Kern
Aug 21, 2023
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Rows of single desks with chairs in a sunlight filled classroom
Photo by MChe Lee on Unsplash.

A few weeks ago a friend called me up, saying she’d cut her finger and wasn’t sure whether she needed stitches or not. I popped over right away (she lives across the street, small town life) and we hemmed and hawed over this deep but not, like, bone-deep slice: “It’s not dangling…” “But it’s still bleeding…”. The prospect o…

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