Scar Cover-Up Tattoos That Helped People Make Peace With The Past

A Flower At A Time

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Lindsay felt like her “body didn’t belong to me” after her grandpa sexually abused her. She started cutting her ribs, breasts, and thighs. Eventually, she stopped and got a tattoo of a blooming peony on her sternum and ribs, and in the process took “my body back, one flower at a time.”

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