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As a parent, the Dowbrigade considered himself pretty liberal. For example,
\n we let ’em stay up as late as they wanted at night, on the theory that
\n they’d
\n cause less trouble during the day if they were dog tired. But when
\n it came to tattoos, we drew the line.<\/p>\n
When they asked for
\n an explanation, we tried to explain our ongoing goal of getting through
\n life with as few distinguishing characteristics
\n marring the nondescript anonimity of our body as possible. When we further explained
\n that this was intended to make more difficult identification by law enforcement,
\n various spy services, organized crime and minions of the devil, they
\n seemed to
\n get
\n the point.<\/p>\n
We wish we could have pointed them to the following article,
\n as a prime example of what we were talking about, but it’s too late.
\n Of course, as soon as they moved from under our roof, the first thing
\n they
\n did was get tats.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON
\n — The reputed leader of a violent Honduran gang was using an alias,
\n but
\n the
\n tattoos
\n on his
\n body
\n gave him
\n away. Further
\n checking
\n revealed the man arrested in Texas on Feb. 10 was Ever Anibal Rivera
\n Paz, known as "El Culiche" — The Tapeworm. Rivera Paz had
\n escaped Jan. 23 from a Honduran prison where he was being held on charges
\n of masterminding an armed attack on a bus that killed 28 people, including
\n six children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nActually, the true reason we have always had an aversion
\n to tattoos had to do with the first real tattoo we saw, at the impressionable
\n age
\n of 17. It was on the right forearm of our Foster Mother on a kibbutz
\n a few klicks from the West Bank, and it was a number.<\/p>\nWere we to ever, under extreme duress or temporary madness, forced to
\n mar our body with a real tattoo, the only design we could see ourself
\n getting would be that same number, on OUR right forearm.<\/p>\nfrom the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n
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