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Ex-gang members remove evidence of past lives
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  • "You either got to go shank some guy or go beat up some guy, you had to earn your tattoo."
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  • "I figured I'm gonna' do this for the rest of my life and they're going to stay on my body forever."
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  • "It just felt good, like a promotion at a job or graduating from college or high school, pretty much how it felt getting that tattoo."
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  • "I don't want this on my body anymore."
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  • Irwin Tenorio, 20
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  • Cris Pulido, 29
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  • "I could hear people screaming, it felt like they were dropping boiling water on me."
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  • "When you remove your tattoos, you can never go back, like a soldier at a time of war going AWOL, he can never come back."
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  • "This pretty much ain't the life for me, 'cause I was going to have a little girl."
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  • Irwin's desk: open bibles, pictures of loved ones and a music box he's had since infancy.
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  • "My boxing coach he told me you need to know in your life what's going to be your purpose."
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  • "I don't want people to see me and say he's just a gang member and just write me off for that." -Cris
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  • "It was all bad man, I was killing my parents on the inside."
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  • Cris with his 7-day old daughter Petaluma, California. 2017. Five years after New Skin project.
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