I've always wanted a tattoo, but I've also been hung up on that whole "my body is god's temple" thing. It's not that I'm particularly religious, but when you've gone 30 years with a clean slate of skin, inking up seems like a big commitment. Where do you start? What do start with? On the other hand, tattoos are only as permanent as you are, which despite the morbidity of saying so, isn't very permanent. Might as well get over the whole clean slate thing and have some fun. Still, our impermanence can be relatively long, so you'll still want to have some ink that says something about you that you can live with. In my case, the short list...
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