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People with body dysmorphia also go to a lot of effort to conceal flaws with clothes and make-up, or pick at their skin.

She picks at the American lionization of our creative heroes, especially those with asterisks next to their names because they’ve abused young women.

They picked at this particular South Africa scab with their verbal armoury of salty snipes when a tense chase began.

“He better be working out because I’m just horrified about that fight — just horrified,” Kind mutters while shaking his head and picking at a small plate of bananas and peanut butter.

Gonsolin’s bloody thumb was the latest unexpected dilemma, arising when the pitcher picked at some dead skin on his thumb after his pregame warm-up and “took some good skin with it,” he said.