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[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 16, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Keith McMullen wrote:

> Glass Medicine Cabinet:
>
> The shelves bore iodine, Mercurochrome, vitamin capsules, dental  
> floss, aspirin, Anacin, Bufferin, Argyrol, Musterole, Ex-Lax, Milk  
> of Magnesia, Sal Hepatica, Aspergum, two Gillette razors, one  
> Schick Injector razor, two tubes of shaving cream, a bent and  
> somewhat torn snapshot of a fat black-and-white cat asleep on a  
> porch railing, three combs, two hairbrushes, a bottle of Wildroot  
> hair ointment, a bottle of Fitch Dandruff Remover, a small,  
> unlabelled box of glycerine suppositories, Vicks Nose Drops, Vicks  
> VapoRub, six bars of castile soap, the stubs of three tickets to a  
> 1946 musical comedy ("Call Me Mister"), a tube of depilatory cream,  
> a box of Kleenex, two seashells, an assortment of used-looking  
> emery boards, two jars of cleansing cream, three pairs o£ scissors,  
> a nail file, an unclouded blue marble (known to marble shooters, at  
> least in the twenties, as a "purey"), a cream for contracting  
> enlarged pores, a pair of tweezers, the strapless chassis of a  
> girl's or woman's gold wristwatch, a box of bicarbonate of soda, a  
> girl's boarding-school class ring with a chipped onyx stone, a  
> bottle of Stopette--and, inconceivably or no, quite a good deal more.


What, no  Carter's Little Liver pills?