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I was ten years old when the corners of my mouth and my lips started getting cuts. They happen almost all the time so I used to hate my lips so much because they cause me pain and yeah, cuts that don't seem to heal. I remember my classmates would always ask me "what happened to your lips?" "why are your lips like that?" and I've got no answer.
My mom noticed what I was going through. You see, these cuts were persistent, I would just wake up one day and they're just there giving me a painful day or days ahead. Of course my mom would tell me, don't lick your lips too much, don't touch the cuts with your tongue (eww!), but I didn't obey her. I couldn't stop licking my cuts! And they just get worse. One time, during First Friday Mass, I was seated beside my crush and I know up to this day that he just noticed me because of the nasty and big cut on the sides of my lips (which sort of peeled through my skin), that's why he asked "hey, what happened to your lips?" I remember being sad and embarrassed the whole day.
So fast forward two years after, my mom had me consult a doc and the doc said that perhaps my diet is poor, and I had lack of vitamins in the body which is also the cause of my unusual skinny built (oh, those were the skinny days, hehe.) and ghostly pale skin. He also said I use petroleum jelly whenever I would have those cuts.
That's the beginning of my relationship with petroleum jelly. I don't use lip balms or anything cherry or strawberry flavored. I just love the oily tasteless taste of petroleum jelly in my mouth.
