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Do hickies cause problems?
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Depends: It depends on what you mean by problems. So medical problems none. Do not know about any other problems, except for social embarsement.
Answered 4/26/2016
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Only embarrassment : No health problems. Embarrassment from people seeing them.
Answered 8/25/2015
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