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Hmmmm... Well you're probably thinking one of three things:

1) "Is that her tongue?"

Answer: No. It's your tongue. Clearly I have devised a way to turn your computer monitor into a mirror because we all know that's the look on your face that you make when you're online.

2) "Is she sticking her tongue out at me?"

Answer: Who me? Noooooo. Okay, well, technically, yes. But not in the way that you think I am. Reason to follow...

3) "Dang, Girlfriend's got a short/stubby ass tongue!"

Answer: Yeah, so! Whatcha gonna do about it? Huh? Huh?!? Hey, in my 27 years I haven't gotten one complaint yet (knock on wood)! So don't playa' hate!

Anyway, so yeah, on to the why. The reason I have displayed my tongue for all of the world wide web to see, is to share w/y'all a somewhat embarrassing secret.

In case you can't tell, I have two scars on my tongue. That's because I've had my tongue pierced... TWICE. (Hmmm, I'm curious as to how many of you are shocked to hear this... but I digress.) Anyway, so the first time I did it, I was 21 years old and a senior in college. And despite what my mom says, it was not some silly act of parental defiance. I really wanted to have my tongue pierced and I was determined to make that decision for myself, no matter what my parents wanted or said. Er, I guess when I put it that way, it kinda was an act of parental defiance. ARGH! I hate it when my mom is right.

So, I had my first piercing for about 8 months. Most people think I deliberately chose to remove it. I think I put it as "I thought it was time to cast off any of my old college ways and join the professional world." Bullshit. One night, I was playing with it and the top ball fell out and I accidentally swallowed it. At the time I was too broke to buy another stud, so I decided to tell everyone I had chosen to take it out. Yeah, not so much.

The second time I pierced it I was 23 years old... and it was done by a guy I knew at work at his house. This would be scar #2. The one on the top. Uh, yeah, the one that is not centered to my tongue. Under normal circumstances it would have just been redone in the same hole, but I had heard that you shouldn't do that. Mistake #1. That's what I get for having some dumbass pothead do it. Mistake #2. Anyway, I had it pierced for over a year - and I might STILL have it to this day, except last year I got sick and I took it out for a night not thinking anything of it. And yep, as you can guess, by the next day the hole had closed up. I was pretty pissed off, but there is/was no way in hell I was gonna do it again. That would just be plain silly (stupid).