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• Police Woman

  When I look at you, I’m thinking I wanna violate the law.

• Anastasia Konovalenko

  One day I’m a prostitute and the next day I’m a nun. Where else could you get instant conversion like that? ~ Lois Bootsin

• Olga G. By Voronin

  Although I know it’s unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time. ~ Stephen Dunn

• Marry Christmas

  Special delivery from Santa.

• Black Venetian Mask

  The masks are typically worn during the Carnevale (Carnival of Venice), but have been used on many other occasions in the past, usually as a device for hiding the wearer’s identity and social status. The mask would permit the wearer to act more freely in cases where he or she wanted to interact with other members of the society outside the bounds of identity and everyday convention. It was useful for a variety of purposes, some of them illicit or criminal, others just personal, such as romantic encounters.