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For Tanya Wilson, the cost of being a hero is at least $7,000.

And perhaps, lost business, if she can’t find a way to get it back open.

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The good news is Mayor John Tory has heard about her plight and assistance may be on the way.

“I didn’t really want to have any focus on me in light of the fact that people died and others are injured,” the 30-year-old tattoo artist said in an interview.

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But the reality is her Skin Deep Tattoo studio at 345 Danforth Ave. remained closed again Thursday.

Thanks to her bravely opening up her shop as a safe sanctuary during last Sunday’s deadly shooting spree that killed two people and wounded 13 others, two victims are alive today.

“It was a mother and her (adult) son,” Wilson said. “They had both been shot in the leg.”

Wilson, who has been in business two years, brought them in, locked the door and began treating them. She said she tied T-shirts around the top of the gunshot wounds while she called 911 for help.