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Photo: Show us your tattoo(s).
Submitted by Megan. 

The first one I had when myself and the ex moved into our house. It was symbolic of a big step in our relationship and that we had made a proper commitment to each other. It doesn't actually have any meaning itself, I just liked it a lot. It was done in 2000. Alas, the meaning behind it is slightly hollow now as I am no longer with the person I was with then, but it still means something in that I did make that commitment and I can do it. Its a big deal and I would be ready to do it again with the right person. But I don't have tattoos for any old reason. I have them to mark something significant.

The second and third ones were done a year before, on the 12th August 1999, I can remember it well. It was the day after the total eclipse of the sun we had in our country back then and it was such a momentous and moving experience for me as that year had been a particularly bad one in that earlier my mother died. I was so moved by the eclipse and thought it was such a beautiful thing, I had to commemorate that year somehow. The tattoos were this. The Yin/Yang in the sun represented the eclipse and is on the back of my calf and the Japanese symbol means "True, real and sincere", which is on my hip, just below the belt line. It was a principle I always vowed to live the rest of my life by and to this day, I have never wavered from that. I hate liars, I don't lie and never will and will always try to be true to myself, to others and live as sincere a life as I can. So far, I think I have lived up to my standards.