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Dean is sitting in a restaurant with their friends Sam and Lailah. Sam says: "I'm advising everyone I know to get a tattoo. The pain builds and builds, and then it just drops off and everything feels beautiful." Lailah says to Sam: "You'd make a terrible torture victim."

Tattoos

ByDean Mang-Wooley September 1, 2008October 30, 2016 2008, Calgary
Post Tags: #2008#beautiful#Calgary#friends#pain#tattoo#torture

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