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Jzellis

I am still a smoker, but even when I quit I’m going to need a lighter. I’m that weirdo who actually refills the little cheapo plastic ones with canned butane, which makes em last for months… but in my heart I am a Zippo man. I’ve bought a couple of them here, but they’re all shitty copies that don’t have proper parts and break down after a few months.

So I have an authentic matte black Zippo and flints and wicks arriving today - cheaper because it does not have the Zippo logo on the side but a Zippo nonetheless.

I’m going to take it to Timpson’s on the high street - a chain of small shoe repair and keymaking kiosks that largely employs ex-cons as a policy - and get two words engraved on it:

BELLA CIAO.

If you know what those words mean - not in Italian but what they mean - you will know why I want them engraved on the side of a reliable lighter even if I quit smoking.

I might have to return to America some day, after all.

[Update: Pics]

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