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tear drop tattoo

Before the corruption of its meaning in the 1940s by numerous gangs, the tear drop tattoo has had an even longer history dating even as far as the 1920s. Symbolizing the loss of a loved on, be it family or freind, or for a wife when one is away at war. Despite its murder count and prison time meanings, it is a display of closure from death.

I have a tear drop tattoo under my left eye because i lost someone very close to me.

by Tattoo enthusiest September 7, 2008