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Wednesday  Jul 26, 2006

Every BODY Has a Story: Star-gazer

This is a cover up of a tattoo I got when I was nineteen. The original tattoo was on the top part,, the part that is colored. I got it done in Flagstaff, Arizona with my best friend at the time, Rachel.

Rachel and I had known each other since we were in seventh grade. We were incredibly close. We had moved to the Grand Canyon together, and it was a real boding experience.

The original tattoo is a sun/moon. I feel it is somewhat emblematic of our relationship. We were sort of hippies at that point, and we thought everything about the sun and the moon was cool. When we went to the tattoo place, Rachel (who is a great artist), freehand drew the tattoo on my neck.

During the years, we have really lost touch. She became a Mormon (actually, she always was, but not strictly). She married a Mormon guy who was not a very nice person. Rachel had always been a very impressionable girl, and her husband was not a good influence on her. She kept trying to leave him because he was abusive, but then she would come back and have another baby.

Though I really care about her,, I ended up feeling as if I could not help her and thus lost touch quite a while ago.

I started this tattoo last year, and then I got pregnant with my beautiful little daughter who was just born a few weeks ago. I want to get it colored in and finished, but I don’t want to do it until I finish breastfeeding.

In a funny way, re-doing this tattoo is negating my relationship with Rachel, but although having your friend draw a tattoo is an amazing gesture of friendship, the tattoo itself was uneven and asymmetrical. Inn a way this was somewhat prophetic about our relationship.

Though I am sad to let this relationship go, I am also very happy to have this beautiful tattoo, and new memories to go with it."

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