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What does it mean?
The speaker honors lost friends through tattoos and pledges loyalty to a specific lifestyle until death.
In plain terms
He wears a tattoo of a friend and stays loyal until he dies.
What can you take from it?
Loyalty to friends and lifestyle is maintained beyond death.

Where it applies

  • friendship
  • subculture
  • personal history

Putting it to work

  • honoring friends
  • maintaining values

Questions to consider

  • How do you honor those you have lost?

Another view

It romanticizes loyalty that may be harmful.

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