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Smith underwent two operations in 2015 to remove her outer and inner ear, lymph nodes, tragus, salivary glands and temporal bones, according to Kennedy News and Media.

Were they too much for comfort, I asked Johan, a cherubic Belgian salesman with a thin gold ring threaded through the tragus of one ear.

I had been O.K. with the tattoo she had gotten earlier in the year and the tragus piercing before that, but I hit a wall at the septum piercing.

The TSA even maintains a blog, The TSA Blog, which chronicles the tragi­comic discoveries that routinely occur at our nation’s airports.

Use your fingers to push in your tragus.