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When I was growing up, I remember my mom talking about how people who get tattoos are ruining their bodies forever. That the art work you picked had to be there for the rest of your life, no matter what kind of person you became in the long run. I didn't realize how right she was until I was much older. A friend became addicted to crack cocaine in high school, he was dedicated to the drug so much so that he got a slang term for it tattooed across his stomach. When he showed me, I remembered what my mother had said to me. In my eyes, he had just labeled himself a drug addict, forever. Even if he turned himself around, it would always be there to remind him and alert people around him. I stayed friends with him for years after school, and he did clean up. He never took his shirt off in public though, not until a year ago. Thanks to technology he was able to get the tattoo that shackled him to his past removed. Finally, he was freed from his past. His children would never have to see it or ask what it meant, he can go to the beach and not have to worry about what people think of him or are assuming about him because of his tattoo.
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