“I painted my fingernails three times in the last two months. Yes, they were chipping, peeling back, my scrubbing fingers rubbing off parts of the tip of the nail paint, destroying what little semblance of “painterliness” the odd job had. It wasn’t entirely caprice that took me when I repainted them. But somehow, I was recovering the nails. Hiding something, wanting to release something.”

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