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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