getyourliferight:

blissed:

Beth Loster, 24, a San Francisco writer and waitress who was a student at UC Berkeley when she met a young man who said, “Hey, we have tattoos in the same font.”

The text of her tattoo - “clad in the panoply of love” - came from “Science & Health” by Mary Baker Eddy. “I like the way the written word looks on the body,” she said. “And that phrase made me feel safe.” His tattoo, also in a “typewriter” typeface, was in Latin. (She can’t recall the translation.)

The text of Loster’s next tattoo was written by that young man, who had become her boyfriend. Before leaving for South America, where he was going to study, he left a note on her refrigerator that began, “this is on account of my loving you forever.” That phrase - in the form of a tattoo - offered her comfort when he was killed in a car accident in Brazil.

“After he passed away, I got it for him,” Loster said. The typeface is from one of the vintage manual typewriters she collects: “I typed it up and brought it in.”

Several years have passed, and she is asked about it nearly every day. “I talk about his death more than I would normally,” she said. “But that’s good. It reminds me that something good happened and something bad happened and, somehow, it’s all OK.”

I will always love this tattoo and the story behind it.