Semicolon, anchor, compass, evil eye: small marks with long histories, often chosen as a first tattoo.
A semicolon marks the place where a sentence could have ended and the writer kept going. That is the semicolon tattoo meaning in one line, and it covers more people than you would think: survivors, but also the family and friends who sat with them. Where it came from, what the butterfly adds, and how small is too small.