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For a long time, I owned exactly one red lipstick. I bought it in a moment of bravery, and as soon as I walked out of the store, I wiped it off with the kind of relief you feel after leaving a party early. After that, it lived in the back of a drawer for years, coming out maybe twice a year for weddings and holidays, the occasions where a little "extra" felt permitted. I want to be gentle with the woman who did that, because she wasn't silly. She had absorbed a lot of quiet r