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Pencil Embedded in Face

Pencil Embedded in Face

Injury illustration

1989.11

Groton, Massachusetts. Eleventh grade, Applied Math, front row. Students were telling jokes before the teacher arrived, and the boy sitting to my left was getting a little carried away with the telling of a funny story, when during one gesture of his hands his newly-sharpened pencil point broke off in the left side of my face.

There is still a small blue dot in the center of my left cheek.