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My So-Called ‘Addiction’ Dates Back 5,000 Years

Go ahead, poke fun at my little lipstick compulsion

Doreen Picozzi
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readDec 19, 2020

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Photo: Melissandra/Getty Images

I was one of 51 seventh-graders getting ready for the Marieville School dance. It was December, and this was to be our first introduction to society, right there in the gymnasium.

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Doreen Picozzi
Human Parts

Former journalist, former press secretary to a public official, now teacher of high school journalism and English, devoted wife, and mom of a true gentleman.