When the man turned, Julian glimpsed part of a tattoo, half a spider crawling out of the collar of his shirt.

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Over nine years and at least a dozen sittings under a needle in a tattoo chair (Thomas said the tattoo parlor "is a great place for just hanging out too"), the 25-year old has had bits of his story inked on his body.

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And one night, we got to go out to the old Marine barracks for the Marine tattoo.

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Ryan likes what he has seen from undrafted free agent Rontez Miles out of California University of Pennsylvania, although he isn't too fond of his Pittsburgh Steelers tattoo.

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Yet as inevitably turned out in order to be able to write a letter in less time that it would take to tattoo it onto the skin of a carrier pigeon you actually needed a Pentium with 8 MB or RAM in order to be able to use the new Windows.

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