Article: Tattoos ink their way into the mainstream.

Byline: Meg McSherry Breslin

LAKE STATION, Ind. _ Families are flooding into a quaint tattoo studio here on a crisp fall day. Mothers and teenage daughters. Dads and young sons. Granddaughters and grandmothers.

Pearl Scott, a 72-year-old grandmother in white tennis shoes, is standing at the front desk scanning her next design. She waits for a touch up on the dove at her neckline and wants a new tat to match her daughter-in-law's ankle flowers.

Scott started this process a few years ago, after her husband of 42 years passed away. She said she always wanted one, but her sweetie was "old-fashioned" and wouldn't go for it.

"He always said, ...

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