The title of this novel always puts me off. why? bad word association.
Quote Tags sounds like Skin Tags, which are a type of topical, communicable, cancerous disease (Often caused by a type of weak virus. Accidentally touching a damaged skin tag and then touching another area of moist skin - on yourself or another person - can transfer the virus to that location. After infection, the cells become benign tumors - cancer - and develop into polyps, often years later. These, are called skin tags. This means that when your Grandmother hugged you as a three year old, you may develop skin tags in your 30s. However, they usually seem to show up within 5 - 10 years of infection. Doctors will tell you that they are often an inherited disorder, which is not true. True skin tags are the result of a contact viral infection becoming cancerous. There are genetic diseases that are similar, but they cover the whole body, not just areas such as the eyelids, nose, neck, armpits, groin, and underboob - areas that are moist. The viruses that can cause it are weak and stay localized at the location if contact, but can easily be spread by further contact of skin on skin. What doctors don't say, is that it IS CANCER, and CAN BECOME malignant, spreading beyond the skin tag polyp and become another type of cancer. Skin Tags are generally ignored out of ignorance by doctors or downplayed as nothing bad. Cancer, benign or malignant, is STILL CANCER! The only difference is when - not if, but when - will the cells of the benign cancer spread to the rest of the body, turning from benign to malignant. And Skin Tags are a CONTAGIOUS FORM OF CANCER!!! It is one of the only known cancers KNOWN to be transferred from person to person. Almost no other type does this....
It makes my hair stand on end with revulsion.
So, yeah... So Tags sounds like Skin Tags, to me. It's a horrible word association.
