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The Blood-Suckers’ Ball | National Geographic


philadelphia city of brotherly love and
home to a very different kind of
fellowship tonight Philadelphia’s
posting one of the country’s biggest
vampire events tonight sales clerk Jen
Hoffman has traveled from Delaware to
attend dracula’s ball for her the event
offers excitement and a chance to
celebrate an identity many would call
taboo Jen says she’s a vampire and she
drinks human blood tonight she’ll quench
her thirst Jen’s friend Cheryl has
agreed to let Jen suck her blood but
before the feeding Jen and Cheryl will
attend dracula’s ball in addition to
being a vampire Jen’s also a goth a
person who enjoys medieval fashion and
fantasy with costume corset wigs and
makeup the women transform themselves
into gothic princesses long after the
Sun has set and darkness envelops the
city dracula’s ball is in full swing the
dance floor is crowded with Goths
vampires and everything in between
many partygoers our self-proclaimed
vampire lifestylers people who embrace
the look if not the deed fake fangs
erotic costumes and ghostly contact
lenses make clear these folks enjoy
being different no blood play is allowed
in the club with the energy at the ball
wets Jen’s appetite it’s time for her to
die on blood Jen burns herbs to cleanse
the hotel room she’ll use medical
lancets to draw Cheryl’s blood it’s been
one month since I fed so this for me is
kind of a good pivotal moment to hold me
over till the next round and yeah I’m a
little hungry with mounting excitement
Jen pricks Cheryl’s finger it’s only a
drop but the first of many
in the age of AIDS few would take so
great a risk however these blood
drinkers are tested regularly and are
confident that they are disease-free 10
minutes later as dawn breaks the feeding
ends I want more but there are other
days the vampire ball may be over but
jen has no plans to stop feeding on
blood anytime soon
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