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ALISHA GORY: My desire
to be tattooed really

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came from wanting
to be different.

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I come from a culture
where everybody

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kind of looks the same.

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They don't really celebrate
a lot of individuality.

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And I've always been very
different since I was a kid,

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and I think that probably
led to the way I am today.

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My name is Alisha Gory,
and I'm a tattoo artist

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based in New York City.

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I was born in South Korea, but
I moved around all my life,

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so it exposed me to a
lot of different culture

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and it opened my mind.

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I moved to America when
I was 18 for college,

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and the real world really
hit me, pretty much.

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It was a very tough time.

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Some of the extreme length
that I had to go through

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as an immigrant was at first
I didn't know anybody or have

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any families or friends here.

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So I pretty much had to
kind of start from zero.

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It was a lot of hustling in New
York City, a lot of crazy jobs.

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