in fourth grade, at my private all-girls school, the teacher would often ask if there were any announcements before our hour and a half long recess began.
usually we were all out the door before he finished his sentence (oh to see that rare bird called recess but once more).
in the depths of december, there was an announcement.
one of my lady classmates (for it was not until the next year that boys were discovered, hiding under rocks and between the toes of trees) raised her hand to remind us to each please remember to bring in chapstick, for she and others were rendered quite uncomfortable (eww) by the sight of their peers' red chapped lips.
we scattered for recess all the same, but for me with lips tightly curled between a gapped-tooth frown.
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