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Stay Gold

This is Emma's tattoo.

This is Julia's.

For me it's a reminder to stay true to myself, to not get too jaded, and to cherish innocence and remember that it can live inside us simultaneously with wisdom.

This belongs to Season R. Gomez.

Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. 

- Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

“Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”

― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders