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How many of us share the childhood frustration of trying and failing to get that perfect little curly-q of toothpaste on the end of the brush, like they had in all of the toothpaste commercials?

(In double checking to make sure I hadn't previously kisrael'd this thought, I made the discovery that I have never used the word toothpaste in any journal entry, neither palm- nor web-based)