It's the week to get a tattoo—why do you want one?

“It’s the one decision in my life I’ve never second-guessed,” my friend Jessy said. For her 33rd birthday, she sat for several hours at the mercy of an artist at Body Graphics, off South Street, whose style matched the vision she’d imagined being inked across her skin....

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