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Some of us are not at our most graceful in the kitchen. In fact, some of us are just plain clumsy anywhere near a hot stove and a rack of sharp knives. You know us when you see us; we're the ones with the band-aids on our fingers and the scars of baking projects past on our palms. Our successes go unnoticed, and we wear our failures as badges of cooking honor.
That is, until today.
Today, we know the truth: that even our most egregious errors can be smoothed away in a matter of days.
And how did we come to discover this great and powerful truth? By accident of course. One day a particularly clumsy member of the group was tending to a burn - a burn that was not behaving, a burn that had split and had to be tended to with Neosporin (a burn that was caused by forgetting to put eyeglasses on before basting the Christmas turkey). This poor accident-prone cook had despaired of ever having beautiful hands again when she stumbled upon a small container of shea butter tucked into a gift box of treasures from L'Occitane. Unsure what it was for, she smoothed some of it on the burn to keep it from drying out, absentmindedly reapplying over the course of the day. But by the time evening came, a miracle had occurred. Where a hideous red scar-causing burn had been, only a faint pink spot remained. It was a miracle! The clumsy cook jumped for joy. No longer would she be forced to carry the stigmas of her kitchen mistakes forever on her skin. Thrilled, she ran right out and told all the other clumsy cooks about the miracle balm she had found.
So now we can rejoice and return to our klutzy cooking, for scars have been banished from the kitchen for good.
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