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The worst 45 seconds ever:
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Making the actual hardest decision of your life:
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And then being stuck for two months with some impulsive holiday theme in your mouth:
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Waking up the day you have to get your braces tightened:
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Then trying to eat the next week:
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Having to actually wear this to sleep every night:
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This evil device that your parents had to forcibly crank with a tiny key every week.
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Trying to find a purpose for this absolutely useless wax:
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Putting on fresh rubber bands before they've stretched out:
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And basically being able to "play guitar" with them when they were too tight:
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Finding these little shits everywhere:
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Getting to wear these super-fashionable shades:
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And staring into this light for 500 hours:
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Or this glowing blue light of doom:
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Wearing this plastic tent in your mouth that made your lips chapped AF:
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Trying to stay still while sharp, dangerous tools were in your mouth:
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Somehow breaking and/or losing this immediately after the orthodontist made it for you:
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Cringing at every picture of you from age 11 to 14:
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Really missing these:
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And this was just out of the question:
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Showing the entire world when you get your braces off:
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And still needing this permanent retainer bullshit after all you went through:
We went through it all, fam.