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Louise












(What do you think of your hands?)
- I hate them, they're like stumps, they're like sausages.  

(What's your favourite and least favourite thing about your hands?)
- I like they've all got their own digits; I use them a lot. My least favourite thing is nail varnish chipping and them looking like sausages.  

(Do your hands play a part in your self-expression?)
- Oh yeah, oh yeah. If I feel like punching somebody.  

(Do you have any scars or marks that have a story?)
- One is from falling down the stairs in a castle, I had to get a metal plate in my arm. I have two or three more thar very small, you can't really see them. Then one here, when I got the plate out, they managed to pinch a nerve. Had to have four operations. It was super annoying, but they feel really good now, and I do a lot of drawing, so I need my hands, so I was out of work for about eight months, had to move back in with my parents.