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lucy sweet
Oct 20, 2025
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THIS WEEK: The Chemist

In Britain, if you want to pick up prescription medication, you either go to Boots, which is a real shop with a pharmacy in it, or you go to your local chemist.

Nobody actively enjoys going to the local chemist. It’s not the same as an American drugstore that sells pumpkin spiced melatonin gummies, or a European pharmacy with a fl…

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