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    Tattoo Removal at Homeboy Industries

    Tattoo removal hurts more "than getting them done" according to this patient, a former gang member. But it's time to take his gang tattoos off. "It feels kind of weird knowing it's not going to be there," he says. --Produced by George Lavender

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    Tattoo removal hurts more "than getting them done" according to this patient, a former gang member. But it's time to take his gang tattoos off. "It feels kind of weird knowing it's not going to be there," he says.

    --Produced by George Lavender

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