apparently
cloves burn a hole in your gum - so a dentist friend of mine informed me (a few days after I'd had my extracted wisdom tooth hole stuffed with cloves)...
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RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing,
Tue 2 Sep 2008, 9:12,
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don't chew aspirins either.
that's how i always used to take them, and when i told my dictor he yelled at me.
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postbear has metal knees,
Tue 2 Sep 2008, 9:19,
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