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I was sixteen when I first walked into that tattoo parlor. The mere smell of the place, which I later learned to be witch hazel, was what made me absolutely sure of my decision. But of course I couldn't look too excited considering I was still a minor, so I played it cool pretending I knew what I was doing. The purr of the needle on skin was intensifying steadily as was my heart.
Eventually, my future tattoo artist, Mike, asked me if I needed any help. I knew what I had to say but was so unsure of how to say it, to go about it, his reaction, my embarrassment if rejected, while still maintaining the same level of "cool" for my own way to save face. While all of this was going through my head, I must have looked as if I was about to have a stroke. Mike had to have noticed my silent explosion for after a few seconds of staring at me, he generously put those thoughts of my insanity aside and simply asked if I knew what I wanted.
I had been thinking about this for a while, and I......

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