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What does a tattoo of a heart with barbed wire around it symbolize?

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Symbolism can be unique to the individual, but there are two interpretations I've been told by guys with that tattoo:

A heart encircled by thorns is a common image in Christianity, and substituting barbed-wire for the thorns is a "modernized" image of an expression of faith.

Another guy told me it meant his heart was a fortress, and would never be taken or broken.

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