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Wednesday Aug 30, 2006
Every BODY Has a Story: Swan Song
"My best friend and I met in the second grade. He was an Asian kid, and we had a funny, kind of competitive relationship that lasted until the day that he died.
We were competitive with everything. Whether it was basketball, sports, or life, we were always trying to one up each other.
We always stayed close through the years. About ten years ago, when he was twenty-six, he had finally gotten it all together. He moved out of his parent’s house, got a killer job and had his first girlfriend.
That night, he died in his sleep. I guess he had some sort of heart problem that no one knew about. It was a huge surprise for everyone.
This tattoo is the first tattoo that I ever got. It is the Led Zeppelin picture from the album, Swan Song. I went in to get a tattoo for him, but I wasn’t sure what to get. I saw this picture up on the wall, and realized that it was perfect.
The picture looked a whole lot like me at the time. I had long hair, and was a nude dancer, so I was naked a lot. I figured that with this tattoo, when I died, I could go up there and be competitive with him again some day. I know we’ll meet up.
A few months after that happened, my dad passed away. I thought about getting another angel, but I figured the one I had would work for both of them."
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