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"People will use it as an icebreaker, or they'll touch you without asking -- like strangers touching a pregnant woman's belly," explains Mayorga. Having tattoos "dehumanizes you in a way," she says. "It turns you into a vessel for the art."
Mayorga, who collects antique keys as a hobby, says she got an ornate key tattooed on her wrist several years ago. "Strange guys started using it as a line, asking me if it was 'the key to my heart,'" she recounts. "It drove me insane." She says the last time she got that line, she snapped. "I told the guy, 'No, it's the key to your dungeon.' That shut him up pretty quick."
The moral of the story? Prepare for your body art to open up all kinds of conversations with strangers.
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