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Indelible Ink

An older man with white hair wearing a maroon t-shirt sits at a table. On his arm is a tattoo that says DANGER

Only 13% of people over age 65 in the U.S. have a tattoo. Here are a few of them — and the stories their tattoos tell. Melanie Cottle’s mom would have been horrified to see the small, blue angel fish tattoo on Cottle’s upper left back. Raised in a small Ohio farm town, Cottle’s upbringing […]