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Thursday  Sep 21, 2006

Every BODY Has a story: My Soul Will Find You

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"On 9/11 my best friend was in LA and I was in Philly. It looked like the end of the world, and I asked what would happen if one of us died and the other one didn't. She said simply "I will come and find you."

That single statement reassured me more than anything else that day, and in many days to come.

When I decided to move from Philadelphia and away from my friend, I wanted a tattoo to honor our friendship. "I will come and find you" seemed like the obvious choice.

But the place where I wanted the tattoo already had some ink of a fierce looking rabbit that was a mascot from the women's empowerment march and I thought "I will come and find you" right by such a fierce looking rabbit would look like some kind of weird revenge tattoo.

So I asked for script "my soul will find you..." which is flanked by "Vi" on one side and "Wes" on the other, which are the names of my niece and nephew, who I was also leaving behind in Philly."





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