Reply by Jim Finn

“Amazingly, In South Africa, I always got splinters.
Here in Canada, I don’t…”
IT may be because of humidity difference. I find I get more slivers in this desert I now live in compared to when I lived in a much more humid Wisconsin. When I start to get slivers I lotion my hands to make them more pliable and this avoids slivers for me.

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