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owch
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It took my five years to decide on the last one…
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So while somethings do change: I think long and hard about my tattoos now.
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But now I only chase who I am and I still like the idea of altering the body I was born with in ways that have nothing to do with weight, or hair, or looks.
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I started out doing things to my body because I was running after ways to show the world who I wasn’t .
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01.07.10
Till I discovered waxing from my friend Nicole.
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After that I switched to creams.
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Although she missed a key point.
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Gail also taught me about body hair.
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Eventually I worked up the courage to buy one of my own with money I earned from dog walking.
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I wore my borrowed bra everyday and washed it in the sink to avoid dealing with my mom’s questions.
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Thank God in Gail’s family things were different.
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Attempt number two:
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Attempt number one:
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Despite my knowledge I was uncomfortable when I started developing breasts.
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Too timid to buy tampons I stole hers.
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When I got my period at fourteen I didn’t tell my mom.
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And for five of the longest minutes ever I thought the world would end.
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I was mortified, but I was curious.
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…when I was twelve and went to sleep away camp.
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The closest we ever came was…
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Six years earlier I’d been ashamed of them.
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My breasts were one of my few body parts I liked.
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05.29.09
Once at home I couldn’t stop admiring my new rings.
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The whole thing only took a few minutes. Maybe just three or four.
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My one worry was quickly put to rest.
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And she read all the right books.
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She worked, she enjoyed the twenty-four hour culture of New York City,…
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She lived with her older boyfriend who was twenty-one.
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The current me just didn’t do conventional.
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Needless to say it didn’t go over well when my mother, trying to bond, took me shopping.
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04.02.09
Because I was eighteen and I could.
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04.02.09
I was not choosy about my first tattoo. It was something I did on a whim.
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So I turned to other forms of body art to reflect my evolving identity.
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…and while the results were spectacular, they were also less than ideal.
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03.24.09
…and then I went for the cartilage.
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for another personality to emerge.
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03.24.09
was an opportunity
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03.24.09
every new hole in my ear
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03.24.09
Like dying my hair
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03.04.09
By then Gail and I were no longer little girls who asked our mommies for approval. We were rebels and
we knew where we stood.
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03.04.09
…but perfect was hardly the goal.
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03.04.09
Of course our results were far from perfect…
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02.24.09
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02.24.09
The next time I pierced my ears I was newly fifteen and no longer cared about asking permission.
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02.24.09
I showed all of my friends.
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02.24.09
I couldn’t stop admiring my ears.
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In under two minutes it was done.
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01.28.09
I was excited and a little nervous when she used a red sharpie to mark the places for the holes.
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01.28.09
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But I had eyes for only one thing.
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01.28.09
It was filled with every imaginable bauble.
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01.28.09
A few weeks after I was an official teenager, grandma took me to a store she knew on Madison Avenue.
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She always said yes when mom said no. And she was the one who took me clothes shopping.
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She kept them in her purse.
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She was totally American except for one thing: She stuck sugar cubes underneath her tongue when drinking tea.
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Grandma came to this country when she was seven.
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Grandma had her ears pierced forever.
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