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The Lipstick by the Door

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Aug 24, 2026
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Push open the heavy doors of a great department store and take a breath. That first wave that hits you, the perfume in the air, the gleam of a hundred little gold tubes, a woman in red lipstick ready to hand you a mirror. Cosmetics. Every single time, right at the front door.

The store could have put anything there. It could have led with the roped-off h…

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