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You're so welcome. I look forward to reading and experiencing more of your literary work.

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Amazing life recount. Jess, you are truly gifted. This made message smile, laugh, cry and think. Thank you!! God bless. 🙏❤️🙏

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Thank you so much Cathy! What kind words. I feel like this experience has made me laugh, cry, and think so I love that all of those things came through for you too. ❤️

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Thank you. This is a beautiful piece.

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Thank you for reading Kate!

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I cried at this, thank you, what lovely writing.💕 The nipples are amazing!

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Oh...that touches me so much. Thank you. And aren't they?!? I'm almost jealous!

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I lost a dear friend to cancer at the start of the pandemic-she’d had a mastectomy 15 years before. She would have loved the idea of having a new nipple tattooed on her chest. 💕

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I so wish she had had the opportunity. I’m grateful, though, that she had you. ✨

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That’s very kind of you, Jess, thank you.

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Wow what an absolutely moving piece on friendship. Your friend is lucky to have you. Thanks for sharing.

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Thank you for seeing friendship at the heart of this. I'm immensely blessed to still have her.

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Incredibly beautiful.

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Beautiful all the way around. 💕

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This is so incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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Thank you so much for reading. It’s an honor and, I sincerely hope, a service to share this story.

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Thanks, Jess. This post is beautiful. Full of heart and love beautifully conveyed. And thank you for letting me share it from my essay today. Tats 'R Us!

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This is a well written, beautiful story of unmeasurable strength! Carmen is indeed a beautiful person inside and out...filled with positivity and gratitude. Thank God for "best friends" , talent sensitive artist and "Nipple Day"!

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Nipple Day might have to be a new annual celebration! ;)

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