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Friday’s Zits returns to some old themes for the strip:

The theme is that women — especially, teenaged girls — talk talk talk, in a rapid, never-ending stream, one sentence flowing into the next, one story into the next, without pause. You can’t get a word in edgewise, the saying goes. (The truth is far from this, of course.)

But Jeremy has found the solution, a very satisfying one: the punctuational kiss.

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