Actually the ancient and honorable practice (Polynesian? African? I forget) of stretching your earlobes by making a cut in them and inserting increasingly larger coins is now coming back in the teen set, I am informed by our family spy in the Younger Generation. She says it looks really gross when the disk is taken out, though. They use sterilized disks instead of coins since they aren't perosnally accountable for their bride-prices, I suppose.

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