March 7, 2025, 10 a.m.

“I Got My Ears Pierced!”

The Daily Kina

First client in the door on Sunday morning gets the onyx studs

I don’t know that I’ve felt the passage of time so keenly as I did when I watched Kina’s face transition between cusp-of-weeping anxiety and confident adulthood as she got holes punched in her earlobes.

I can’t say it any other way than that she is this much closer to growing up.

It was worth an entire issue.

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