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Monday Nov 14, 2005
Justin Pelegano's Tattoo Stories - "Winter Morning"
At first glance Vin's tattoo seems straightforward enough (I mean, if you speak Russian that is). But the great thing about ink is that even the most basic looking tats can come loaded with deep meaning. So look below the surface; ink is almost never just skin deep.
... Justin Pelegano
"I am going through a divorce [and] my wife insisted I never get a tattoo. So when we separated I went and got one. [It] is in Russian. It's a line from a famous Pushkin poem called "Winter Morning" that says, "winter frost and sunshine." A lovely friend of mine recited this poem to me one evening.
Imagine a warm evening towards the end of summer. You are sitting outside as the sun begins to set and the stars start to appear. You are with someone that you care about a great deal. She begins to recite to you, "zima ootro...moroz e solntse...." There is just a feeling of the sun from the poem shedding its light into your soul and chasing away the wintery frost that is part of the break up of a marriage. Every time I think about my tattoo I remember that evening."
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