Well, isn't this nice being back together like this?

For a new episode of Books Closed, thanks for joining me.

I'm Andrew Stortz, as always, and I'm just sitting here in this little room, this little microphone, waiting for someone to listen to me, talk about tats.

Today, that person is you.

So to celebrate your lucky day,

I was able to have a nice discussion

with Chicago-based tattooer, Faith,

the owner of Wish Me Luck Tattoo,

which is a brand new shop,

and notably, it is the first black trans queer owned shop in that city

faith has quite a story some of the spots in this episode they almost left me speechless in a way

i didn't know how to react because there were some unexpected turns and i don't want to tease you

too much because you don't have to wait that long.

We're about to hear it.

Don't worry.

But we start the conversation talking about how Faith had quit tattooing after over a decade on the job.

And she underwent conversion therapy through a church.

This is a story I have not heard the likes of on this show.

I'm excited for you to hear it.

So let's let Faith do the talking. Here we go.

Before we get started in the place of where you would normally hear an advertisement right now,

I am the sponsor this week and I am sponsoring it because of my desire to have my dream

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