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What actually happens to your finger when you succumb to the primal urge to violently rip off a hangnail?

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What actually happens to your finger when you succumb to the primal urge to violently rip off a hangnail?

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What actually happens to your finger when you succumb to the primal urge to violently rip off a hangnail?
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