Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Eagles' Nest



Generally speaking, I don’t approve of tattoos. I don’t care where you put them or how pretty they are; they’re not an improvement on unblemished skin. Besides, they’re just so permanent. I knew a fellow in college who spent years and thousands of dollars removing a large letter D (his first initial) from his bicep – a painful mistake he’d made in his teens. But last week I read about Gabriel Marshall and his dad, Josh. Gabriel, now 8, had undergone surgery for a brain tumor and was left with a nasty scar above his right ear. “My son was very self-conscious,” Josh reported. “He felt like a monster. I said, ‘You know what, I’ll get your scar tattooed. That way, if people want to stare at you, then they can stare at both of us.’” Now father and son have identical scars. And they’re both turning heads.

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