Sophie Allison had turned 18 and was ready to leave her hometown in the dust. She was just out of high school and preparing to move to New York City for college. All of her stuff was packed, but there was one last place she needed to go before she left town—the tattoo shop.
“It was right before I was going to go to New York, thinking I was never coming back,” she explains. “The Tennessee flag has a circle with three stars in it, so I got three black stars tattooed on my thigh. I didn’t
