Watch a couple of episodes of the reality television show Miami Ink and you realize that tattooing has shed its outlaw image. People from all walks of life come into the show’s featured tattoo studio wanting to get designs etched into their skin.
Wearers of traditional tattoos can’t easily erase the marks of passions gone cold.
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