And another thing that’s funny is that Ed Hardy and I are friends, and Ed would — but he was under sort of Sailor Jerry’s spell, and — but now Ed and I are friends, and he realizes that he made a mistake of being sort of a foe of mine, and then it was understandable, because Ed and a lot of tattoo artists of that era — see I was the only tattoo artist in San Francisco for 20 years. And it was everybody’s favorite city, I was tattooed all over, I was media friendly. The components for success couldn’t have been better. ((Success Object)) So, I think that I’m a product of timing. I was the right guy at the right place at the right time, and consider myself a fortunate man that that happened to me.

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