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THROUGH THE LENS: Mike Verna

ike Verna, “Man Of Steel,” is lying facedown a short distance from me, with about a baker’s dozen of acupuncture needles in his lower back, and they’re hooked up to a PENS unit. He’s getting carefully regulated electrical shocks into the area that’s bothering him most today, under a

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