[ WP ] Emotional pain can create tattoos as physical pain can create scars .

The woman stared at my eye. I knew she was n't actually looking at my eye, but actually the huge tattoo that surrounded it. 
 
 `` Hello, what may I help you with?'' I asked her. He face is clear, as are the bare arms and shoulders she is flashing. 
 
 `` I'm getting married on Sunday, and I was wondering if you could take the photos,'' she said. 
 
 `` Yes, of course,'' I say, smiling. I search for the paperwork as she looks at the photos around my office. Most of them are weddings, with a few nature scenes that I took when I was younger. Back before I took photos just to pay the bills. She pauses at a striking shot of a burned building. It was the only picture I took and kept of the genocide that tattooed and scared me and thousands of others. I'd often thought of taking it down, the memories were painful, but I figured I had to keep some explanation of the tattoo that covered half of my face. 
 
 I pull out the paper. `` Where is it?'' I asked, and she gave me the address, and the time, and her name, and her credit card, and just about everything else I needed. 
 ••• 
 
 The wedding was held outside in a small, white, vine covered gazebo. It was the kind of clear, blue skies day that reminded me of why I got into this business. The woman I had met earlier was calmly telling everyone where to set up what. 
 
 I walked around the scene, thinking through where I was going to take all the pictures. That was when I saw what appeared to be the only tattoo on her body. 
 
 She was wearing a dress that had a hole cut out on one side of her waist. Visible through it was a dark, intricate tattoo. Tattoos always showed up on the part of the body that, metaphorically, hurt the most. Mine was on my eye because it was what I saw in the genocide that hurt the most. When I saw her tattoo, I wondered what could have possibly hurt her *waist*. And then I realized that it had probably hurt her heart, and it hurt her so much that the tattoo reached down to her waist. 
 
 
 I wondered what could have possibly hurt her heart so much. Hearts were n't easy to hurt like that. They were often the last place to get tattooed. 
 
 `` Do you mind if I get your tattoo in the shot?'' I asked her. 
 
 `` No,'' she said, `` I wore this dress to show it.''
