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Lifestyle
Matt Kempner

Our bodies are a tattoo canvas? Years later, some crave an eraser

They quietly drift in, from all walks, hoping to erase a part of themselves they had intended to be permanent.

A girlfriend’s name. Phrases once empowering, but no longer so. Botched cosmetic fixes. Misspellings. Odd shapes, designed under the influence of too much alcohol late at night.

At a clinic in a Sandy Springs, Georgia, shopping center, they try to expunge drawings and words that no longer feel right.

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