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In 2001, the late Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly wrote a wonderful tongue-in-cheek meditation regarding people watching at the beach entitled "Girth of a Nation".  
Link attached.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2001/08/01/girth-of-a-nation/5c61c857-6aaf-480d-9a6c-cbc9ce9652b2/

I am never able to consider tattoos without remembering this paragraph from his Op-Ed:

[i]Two: Truly, nothing exceeds like excess. An earring -- or two, or three -- nicely compliments the human form. Even a pierced navel, on the right body (again: 18) adds sex appeal. But, oddly enough, adding on a staple through the tongue, a couple of ball-studs in the upper lip and a troika of rings in the left nostril does not improve on this beginning. Similarly, with tattoos. A single butterfly on a well-turned ankle is one thing; a torso-spanning butterfly garden is another. [b]Remember too that, in the due passage of time, things sag. Also, they wrinkle. Tattoos affixed to things that sag and wrinkle likewise sag and wrinkle. As the artist inks the image of your beloved across your back, stop and think that, years hence on the beach, you will resemble nothing so much as a man taking the picture of Dorian Gray for a walk.[[/b][/i][/quote]

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