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In 2003, writer Shelley Jackson asked 2,000 volunteers to get a single word tattooed on their bodies. Together, they formed the story "Skin," but its full text was never published. The pieces of it wandered the earth, occasionally finding each other (two got married) and undoubtedly drunkenly telling new stories about their participation at bars. One died.
This year, she asked the participants (who she calls "words") to upload a short video of themselves reading their words aloud. Then, she cut the 200 words who did so into a new story, which has now launched at Berkeley and online. It's embedded above.
2006-2011 archives for The Daily Dish, featuring Andrew Sullivan