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Article: The Message Of Massage.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Once considered naughty, the therapy is now mainstream
THE stress of finals had Kimberly Cummings gnarled into knots. Her shoulders ached. Her muscles were taut. The former Clark Atlanta University student went to the salon planning to treat herself to only a hair-do, but when she saw a special including a free 30-minute massage, she decided to indulge.
"I was nervous about what they would do," says the 29-year-old coordinator of special projects for Chicago's Department of Aviation. "It seemed awkward being in a room with a stranger without your clothes. But she covered me with a sheet and only exposed one part of my body at a time. It was very ...