"When he is pierced, I bleed," she reports to her tape-recorded diary.
She said, "Dad, why don't you get your ear pierced?" I made $5 million that year, and I went ahead and had my ear pierced.
"After my navel was pierced, I was taking, like, three showers a day for the first three months.
In every other respect, it is superb, 20 years on, to find this tremendous role again so piercing; I hope New York and other cities can see the production soon.
Unsurprisingly, it's one of many stories about characters facing tough times, from the taciturn thieves and corrupt cops of Berlin noir In The Shadows, to the street-level snapshot of Beijing youth in Piercing I, an animated feature which director Liu Jian financed by selling his house.
"Have you just had it pierced?" I shrugged.
Since everyone has that same lower lip piercing, I can't tell them apart.
Although enthusiastic to get the piercing, I was still too ashamed to tell anyone aside from my boyfriend what I was doing.
Shoulder-to-shoulder between an 11 year-old ginger kid and a ripped Mexican dude with a septum piercing, I hear "We're Cloud Nothings from Cleveland, Ohio".
