the chapstick that ruined my life
Recently, I looked back at pictures of myself from fifth grade. When I was little, like 10ish years old, maybe, my mom gifted me this Coca-Cola chapstick. I put it on, and a week or so after wearing it regularly, the skin on my upper and lower lips got really badly dry and began to hurt. Granted, this issue with my skin may not have been from the chapstick at all, but from my constant licking my lips as if I were some idiot gecko or something. However, this idea I denied, and blamed it all on the chapstick to spare myself from such embarrassment. Whatever the cause, though, I was now plagued with a horrible dark ring around my mouth. I remember that I was over at my family friends' house one day, and they had a little girl who must have been 3 or 4 years old at this point. She looked up at me and said, "Wow, you have a mustache!" At first, I thought she was just talking about the baby hairs that everyone has on their upper lips, so I told her that she had little hairs, to...