‘I carried his name on my body for nine years’
‘I carried his name on my body for nine years’: the tattooed trafficking survivors reclaiming their past
I was branded like cattle,” she says, standing outside the Among the Living tattoo shop in Lancaster, Ohio – the place where she says she freed herself from a life of violence and slavery. “But coming here that first time, knowing that when I walked out the door I’d have replaced that sign of evil with something that was beautiful and full of life and hope: I knew I was going to set myself free, and man, that was a great feeling.”
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these poor women go through, and then come out on the other side and be strong enough to shine a light on their ordeal. 
