News You Missed - Tattoo Dad

"It's Better than a photograph"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello, and welcome to news. You missed stories from
around the world which perhaps didn't gain the media attention
that perhaps they should have done if we had nothing
better to do. This story is some Private Eye. If
you don't subscribe to Private Eye so strongly suggests you do,
because it's pretty excellent. They have a funny old world
column in it. And for years this has been one

(00:20):
of the major attractions and distractions from all the doom
and gloom in the world. And this is from Weis
and it was from August of this year, and ever
listened to this beauty. This isn't the Repulica Angelica Radvetski
told viewers from her home in West Virginia. You can
see his hair, his wrinkles, the ink I kissed good night.

(00:40):
When my husband TJ died, I didn't want to frame
photo to remember him by, so I had a morticiana
outline and socially removed the section of skin from his
right arm before cremation compete with a tattoo of his
favorite Pittsburgh Steeler's hat in black and gold. Then we
shipped to the Save ma Ink Forever Company in Ohio,
where they treated it and returned at night. Days later
in this darkwood case and frame. When my ten year

(01:04):
old son Preston saw it, he smiled and said, this
is Dad in that frame there on the wall. Can
you think of anything more ghoulish than this? For me
and Preston, It's not a Macarb soubren air. It's a
tangible connection. TJ and I had talked about it before,
so we knew what we were going to do. I
feel him here a lot, spiritually and energetically. Whenever we

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want to know he's here. We can hold the frame
and the skin and it does so much more than
a picture ever could. It's unconventional, it's intimate. It's exactly
what TJ would have wanted. I would imagine it kind
of wanted to stay alive with his skin still on
his arm. But there you go. This is the piece
that we really really need it. And piece pi ecs

(01:49):
So I mean, would you cut off a piece that
would you leave to your loved ones a piece of yourself?
And what piece of yourself would you leave? I dread
to ask that question because this is the Internet, but
it is what it is. What piece of you would
you leave your relative? If you suddenly popt your Clogs

(02:10):
answers below.