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illuminated be the green led of the ground fault plug on the wall, i grab the tooth brush in the cup at the left of the sink. Identifying the correct one by feel, passing over the soft bristle brush my roommate uses and grabing instead the metal handled brush. add a quantity of paste, probably enough based on pressure change of the tube. brushing the teeth, right side top, right side bottom, outsides then inside. moving to left bottom, left top. something strange there. a protuberance on the gum between the penultimate and final tooth on that side. I had several days back in haste of flossing caught that spot in with the floss painfully. now it was swollen. not just a little. I finished the ritual of brushing then rince in cold water. Light on, then back to the mirror. pulling my mouth open to get a better look at this thing there. red, bulging. I poke it, no feeling at all, a hard almost wartlike extention flappy there between the teeth. wondering now how to deal with this thing. a dentist would probably just cut it off. doing that myself would probably be difficult, but... My fingernails on my right hand are long, i could probably just pinch that herniation between the tooth and my nail, and saw it off. i began to do so. there was almost no pain at all, surprisingly. but the blood. so much, filling my mouth and dripping from the fingers not quite in the cavity. Back and forth rubbing the nail at the spot pressure towards tooth until i could feel contact made. the peice of gum was not fully removed thus. i took some floss to finish the job, placed the floss between tooth and gum then pushed the floss horizontally directly towards the other tooth catching the now mostly removed gum between. I began to saw the floss against that dangling bloody mass of flesh until i felt it plop and fall against the inside of my cheek. removed floss and lump of gummy flesh in parrallel. I rinsed then that lump of pink tissue and examined. it was hard like gristle and rough in texture. disgusting. Spitting dark crimson into the basin, I opened the foset to clean out the blood from my mouth. brushing again, flossing again. then a rinse of antibacterial floride mouth wash. This is the third time I've cut this flesh from this mouth. .