ACTIVITY 73: Read
the text below and choose from the menus the suitable answer. The
first alternative [ enjoys -
loves - feels
like -
would rather] is already done for you.
TATTOOS
Mary Darlington
to look at her tattoos.
She has a bird and
a red flower on her shoulder.
"They look great and I think they
me," she says.
"Everybody
is by them."
At 15, Mary is one of a number of young people who choose
to get tattooed. It is
, thanks to celebrities such as Madonna and Cher.
But not everybody is as as Mary on this form of decoration.
Dr Glover runs a tattoo-removal clinic in a plastic surgery unit. He
that
people should not try to do their own tattoos. "You can
a professional
tattooist to use sterilised needles, so at
there
is no danger of infection."
Dr Glover is seeing more and more patients. "These
are people who
regret their tattoos. They may look good with
clothes when you are
your teens, but you won't get a job in a bank with
'love' and 'hate' tattooed on
your knuckles."
Unfortunately, tattoos are difficult and often impossible to get
.
"They
don't just like old clothes," says Brian Cook, now
27.
"I've been
coming to the clinic for six years and the removal is very painful.
They are the reason why I can't get a job, my marriage is in
, and everyone
at me on the beach."
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