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You probably remember the screaming headlines from last year: a distraught Kylie Jenner took to Snapchat to declare that, try as she might, she just couldn’t get her Cartier Love bracelet off her wrist.

Jenner’s was a protracted trauma. The $5,000 bangle in question, which features tiny and clearly very stubborn gold screws, had been imprisoning the 18-year-old reality star’s wrist for “like, four years,” she complained. Not surprisingly, the plight of the unfortunate Kylie—whose forearm in fact sported six Cartier bracelets totaling, like, $41,000—brought out the wags.

“Kylie

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