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As a child, I had a love-hate relationship with sticks of Topps trading card gum. Sometimes I would toss it on the ground and gleefully watch it shatter into a billion pieces. Other times, I would stuff as many pieces of bubble gum in my mouth as I could and produce a sugary wad