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How to Untangle a Necklace

How to Untangle a Necklace

And the riddle of femininity

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Virginia Heffernan
Feb 01, 2021
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This Ingenious Hack Will Get the Knots Out of Your Necklaces FAST

First, it’s less tangled than you think.

Unless you spent your wee hours in an Ambien trance, bowlining the heck out of an innocent 12" chain, all that happened is your necklace lay on a night table somehow perplexing itself.

Still, nothing unperplexes easy. And the nature of the tangled necklace is that you’ll forget what you know about its not being tan…

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