Scar Cover-Up Tattoos That Helped People Make Peace With The Past

The Meaning Of Strength

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Holly had two titanium rods on both sides of her spine and two-thirds of her vertebrate fused into a large bone. She ended up with 2-½-foot scar down the middle of her back. So she got the word “strength” tattooed next to her scar. “The “S” is a tracing of my actually spine from an X-ray before my surgery,” which took courage to recover.

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