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Lip Pointing With Radium Paint

It’s called lip pointing. It’s fun. You should come work with us. We get paid good money. I was tempted. Not only was she my cousin But Flo had a surreal prettiness about her, A glow other girls did not have. I wanted to be around her, Everyone did. She was the “it” girl. Of course I said yes. Learning the trade in gulps and blips. I was good at it; I could do watches quickly. You glow too! My mother said. So proud. I was the new “it” girl. Until I was no longer a girl at all Rather a jawless thing Thanks to radium which was more dangerous than we ever believed I was an “it” girl who led her cousin Flo to the grave All she had to do was follow my glow…..

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