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Tara Brogan asked Giovani, owner of High Street Tattoo, to ink a strip of bacon on her calf.

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Ink-stained

The art (and science) of tattooing goes back thousands of years

No one really knows why man began to tattoo. But Tara Brogan knows why she decided to get her latest -- a strip of bacon -- inked into her left calf.

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