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Curriculum Vitae 2: The Kissing

Curriculum Vitae 2: The Kissing

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Illustration by Maya Betser

When you’re a baby, you’re everyone’s favorite kissing object: parents, siblings, aunts, neighbors, and miscellaneous others. It makes sense: you’re tiny, you’re cute, and most importantly, you can’t fight back. Babies are repeatedly pestered with kisses, without any effective means of protesting. All the kisser needs is deter…

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