Multiple Face Piercings: A Short Story

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On the streets of Brooklyn, New York, or Chicago, Illinois, or any other public or downtown urban area, walking amongst the thousands of people, shoulder to shoulder on the crowded walkways, with no idea whom one might encounter. In such busy and populated areas, everyone seems in a hurry or to be preoccupied; there one might see diverse people of different races, ethnics, genders, ages, religions, careers, and so forth; crossing by many different faces, some doctors, lawyers, single mothers, and drug addicts and their drug dealers. Then suddenly one lock eyes with a girl who looks out of place, one starts to ask questions of this girl and her belonging. She has numerous tattoos covering her body from the neck down, multiple face piercings;

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