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I Want You To Lick Me - by Jessica DeFino

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On food and beauty and womanhood and Jessica Simpson Dessert Treats edible body spray.

It was the era of flip phones and ephedra pills, of skinny brows and straightened bangs, of low-rise jeans and 5 for $25 thongs from Victoria’s Secret PINK. Celebrities baked in cancer beds and told us this was beauty. A Harvard nerd built a hot-or-not site and told us this was connection. It was the season of Juicy sweats and glossy lips, of deep clavicles and deeper cleavage, of pop princesses dropping the veil of virginity. Britney was pregnant, Christina was “Dirty,” and if you met me with your eyes closed, you’d be forgiven for thinking I was a cone of orange-vanilla soft serve. Such…

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