Steven and Melissa's Friendship Tattoos

This summer outside of Penn Station, on the corner of 8th Avenue and 33rd Street, I met Steven & Melissa, who marked their friendship with matching tattoos:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRXiMegA9NJfVu_Fn-QLlPVx2FJNJfMpxwoxQTQx6KgbQhptghA4OHh4RaFjejBAMaannzDySUp92L8jwdqR8_OhTh32-KzTFIuBRnvVyfHWhZyiHjv15BVQ6ynyG65O3m17TiP__GIy0/s774/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRXiMegA9NJfVu_Fn-QLlPVx2FJNJfMpxwoxQTQx6KgbQhptghA4OHh4RaFjejBAMaannzDySUp92L8jwdqR8_OhTh32-KzTFIuBRnvVyfHWhZyiHjv15BVQ6ynyG65O3m17TiP__GIy0/s400/photo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This is how our discussion went:<br /><br /><b><i>Tattoosday</i></b>: "So what's the story with that tattoo?"<br /><br /><i><b>Melissa</b></i>: "It's a friendship tattoo..."<br /><br /><i><b>Steven</b></i>: "Yeah, I'm a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_(astrology)">Cancer</a>, so that's a moon, and it kind of describes our relationship, because she's an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(astrology)">Aquarius</a> and the moon controls water, it's a push and a pull, we balance each other out."<br /><br /><i><b>Melissa</b></i>: "But he doesn't control me though...our first thing was that we found out that the moon controlled insanity and stuff, and we think we're really weird and crazy...that's what we were going with..."<br /><br /><i><b>Steven</b></i>: "So a little of everything..."<br /><br /><b><i>Melissa</i></b>: "Yeah."<br /><br />You could tell they are close friends because their sentences overlapped and they seemed to be finishing each other's thoughts.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgARYHMGSwap-c0NZe3JLBx7bEFKXt42rEXoqk28uGmwFDOyLzmnVV3t92qhAS5_91rZNQ_o0zawqdWlWQDf_yKxfl38pHCV-P0xo2MoUFFCz8eNDx5XiiJuaiHlMoPAyUR4zb373wODuY/s615/IMG_0608.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgARYHMGSwap-c0NZe3JLBx7bEFKXt42rEXoqk28uGmwFDOyLzmnVV3t92qhAS5_91rZNQ_o0zawqdWlWQDf_yKxfl38pHCV-P0xo2MoUFFCz8eNDx5XiiJuaiHlMoPAyUR4zb373wODuY/s640/IMG_0608.JPG" width="398" /></a></div><br />They credited the design and tattoo to an artist at <a href="http://nyckulture.com/">NYC Kulture</a> on St. Mark's Place in the East Village.<br /><br />Thanks to Steven and Melissa for sharing their friendship tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.9366588406264782" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit</span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></span></b>

Steven and Melissa's Friendship Tattoos

This summer outside of Penn Station, on the corner of 8th Avenue and 33rd Street, I met Steven & Melissa, who marked their friendship wi...

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