The Wife's Tattoo

My wife has a tattoo on her upper thigh. Three words: "I love you."

She wouldn't remove it. Every time we were intimate, she would even make me look at it.

She said it was a mark of shame from her past as a nightclub girl, a way to deeply remember the pain of those years.

Later, on the day we were celebrating our fourth wedding anniversary at a hotel, a little girl who looked exactly like her rushed into the banquet hall.

She cried, "Give me back my mommy!"

Only then did I learn that the ta