I pierced my left nip-
ple in May of 1996. A
young woman named Tashi, who was obviously heavily involved in body modification (ritual scars ringed her throat like rubbery pink gills), performed the procedure in a chicly grubby little store that looked like some slacker's basement. She wore a T-shirt that said "It Hurts."

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