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Tuesday Apr 04, 2006
Every BODY Has a Story: Baby Steps
"I don’t know why, but ever since my first son was born, I had the idea for this tattoo. When he came home from the hospital, his little footprints were on the birth certificate. There was something so beautiful and fragile about them that I wanted to keep forever.
It was fourteen years ago that I had that idea, but I only got the footprint tattoos a couple of months ago.
So much has happened since my son was born. Since he is fourteen, he is a little too cool to ogle my tattoo much, but I have had two other children in the meantime.
I had another son, who is now six, and a little girl who is three. The six-year-old is pretty interested in the tattoo, but the three-year-old is fascinated. She always wants me to show her the one that was hers.
Each footprint is uniquely different, though it looks like a set of baby steps. For the sake of authenticity, Wade, the artist at Raven Tattoo, worked directly from the original prints.
I wear this tattoo on my back because I like to think about how I will carry them. Now, and forever."
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