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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 54 and I still have the mark inside my right hand from where my nasty abusive older brother stabbed me with a pencil when I was 5 years old and broke the tip off inside my palm. It’s faded a great deal over the years but I’m glad it’s still there - it’s an interesting anecdote should I choose to tell it and it always reminds me that even the men you love can be brutal.

It’s never caused me any harm on the health front, I wouldn’t disfigure your kid to try to remove a bit of graphite. [/quote]

I should add that the actual pencil tip is still inside my palm, and that's usually the case with such occurrences. There are articles in the medical literature about this phenomenon which is apparently not terribly uncommon. In general there is no health risk from carrying graphite in the body for decades but sometimes the body will surround the foreign object with a build up of scar tissue which can cause issues and in that case might warrant a surgical procedure to remove it.[/quote]

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