"I immediately lifted my shoulders and held myself up. I am a better person for having it." It took 59 years for Rob Tai (Whakatōhea, Te Whānau a Apanui) ...

For decades, Tai avoided getting any other tattoos, saving himself for his mataora - a journey he thought might never come. "I didn't think it would ever happen. I wouldn't ask or talk to anyone ...