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Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo is an Oni. To me it helps me remember the strength I have and that I’ve overcome being homeless at 17. Also for protection against bad vibes, the world can be an ugly place sometimes so you need all the help you can get

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would be a story of my past and my present and my hopes for the future. I owe a lot to my family and where we are from but also a lot to the people who raised me. The people in my neighborhood and the family I’ve created on my own. I still have a lot of skin left to tattoo and that is my hope for the future. That I keep living and gathering experiences to be memorialized on myself. To never forget where I’m from and the bonds I’ve gathered along the way and to new adventures

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would help pay off my aunts mortgage. She helped raise me. When everyone else gave up, she was there. I help out around her house now taking out the trash and fixing what I can so she doesn’t have to always rely on repair men or waste money on a cleaning service. She has a heart of gold and a saint in my eyes, she deserves a break.