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James McGowan --- This scar is a burn from an iron. I was born in Italy and my parents lived in a hippy commune named "The Children of God," and so all their stuff was basically ancient. They had this old, old, iron for ironing clothes, and it was super heavy. I was a hyper child. I was two, and I pulled the chord and it fell on my hand, and it stayed burning. I couldn’t get it off my hand, and I started screaming, but I was always stubbing my toes and screaming. My mom also had six other kids, and there was always one of us screaming, so that’s how that happened. There was third-degree-severe, and she took me to the doctor, and they said it fried a bunch of the tendons and the scar really covered my whole hand. You can see where there is a part that points forward to my fingers. That actually used to go down to my knuckles, to my middle fingers. See, I grew, since it’s been twenty-one years since then. That’s almost where my little baby knuckle was. It’s like having a shadow of my little baby hand. You can see where my thumb came out. This came all the way over here, right along there, and right along the edge of my thumb. And this was the curve of my palm, between my thumb and my forefinger, and then this was my forefinger, my middle finger, and this was all the way over to the back of my hand and then all the way up to my wrist.