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The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth

The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth Sent my smooching life south, whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, who kissed the girls and made them cry. The medical term for cold sores, Herpes Labialis, refers to the Herpes virus Type 1 (HSV-1) that most often causes these sores, though Herpes virus Type 2 (HSV-2) less often can also be a cause. Courtesy chafing lower denture the inside lower lip of mine (analogous when braces donned by pearly whites - long since ravaged and removed by Periodontitis; A serious gum infection that damaged gums and can destroy the jawbone) rubbed raw firing, kickstarting, and triggering throbbing ache before going to sleep, whether for a siesta or bidding adieu to the webbed wide world until the morrow, and upon soon after I wake attempting, daring, and farcing to crack a smile experience needling pain for doggone sake. Yours truly most seriously, affected with oral blight when rumblies in tummy signal appeasement of appetite teasing viands with pronounced delight impossible mission to masticate, thus I reconcile myself experiencing pain when chomping on solid foods, whereby the bilabial fricative actuated courtesy chewing motion, (especially movement of lower jaw) doth indelibly etch and sketch copyright infringement onto soft tissue aggravating, grooving, and torturing satisfactorily done by the mandible constituting lower jaw or jawbone regarding the bottom skeleton that makes up the lower (and typically also the more mobile) half of the mouth in jawed vertebrates. While at C(ustomer) V(alued) S(ervice) store at 1206 Gravel Pike, Zieglerville, Pennsylvania 19492 - on a whim, I purchased Peroxide Sore Mouth Cleaner an over the counter product and painless solution to alleviate and heal ulcerated, and lacerated fever blister inside lower lip of this mister re: man, whose spouse considers me weird and peculiarly wired as most likely would deux daughters I sired, though both free and clear despite their former impressionable years being severely mired with unnecessary financial hardship whose lack of healthy gainful employment track record (essentially... I got fired) linkedin to mental health issues, thus no surprise when the writer of these words desired exiting realm of living social (think passive suicidal ideation), particularly manifest destiny to join the underground movement of the dead souls, when fraudsters exerted remote mind control managed to apply psychological ploy leaving an immense black hole sun leaving sense and sensibility extinct, whereat I found myself in good company with the Baltimore Oriole along the Eastern United States. The posted gofundme page... oh that came to naught, thus I live hand to mouth still holding out hope some anonymous benefactor would vicariously writhe nsync with mein kampf.

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