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When I was a kid, I was afraid of matches. My parents heated our old farmhouse with wood, so striking and lighting matches was commonplace, especially in winter. But the way matches sparked to life so brightly and explosively was unnerving to me, and I didn’t want to be around when it happened.
Now that I