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to open our senses fully to nature's beauty and wisdom

The Tender Cut Marion O'Brien Deftly exploring the possibilities forCutting, burning, branding, and bone breaking are all types of self injury, or the deliberate, non suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of