Meg is a woman in her mid-20s from Newfoundland. She has a tattoo of two interlocking horseshoes and the word “Mom” in her mother’s handwriting on her left collarbone. In November of 2017, Meg’s mother passed away after “a difficult battle with an uncommon form of liver cancer.” Meg says that “devastated would be an understatement” for how she felt. “She was the glue that held our very tight-knit family together.” Meg knew she wanted to get a tattoo to honour her mother – she decided on the interlocking horseshoes because they “always bonded over [their] mutual love of horses.” A few weeks after her mother passed, Meg shares that “[she] found an old Christmas tag that [her mother] had signed. [She] never wanted to forget [her mother’s] writing so [she] decided to add it under the horseshoes.” This will always be Meg’s favorite tattoo. Whenever she’s missing her mother, she just has to “look over her heart.”
Meg came up with the idea for her tattoo and Jason Locke from DragonFly Tattoos designed and completed it for her. She chose her left collarbone so that it would be somewhere she could see.
When talking about personal growth and her tattoo, Meg says, “Getting this tattoo made me feel like I always had a piece of my mom with me. It helped bring a closure that I did not think I would ever get. I still miss my mom, but I know she fought like hell and would be proud of me.”
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