When Hamilton-based tattoo artist Andrew Brady arrived at the studio on September 14, he had no idea what the day held in store.

No clue that one of the day's clients, Jeanne Robinson, had been anticipating their appointment for more than a decade and that Robinson is 91 years old.

It all started when Robinson was walking down Ottawa Street, Hamilton on her 80th birthday and poked her head into a tattoo shop.

"I walked in, just said 'I want a tattoo,'" Robinson recalled. "We just figured it out then. It was quite an impulse thing."

That first tattoo was a red rose with a swirl pattern wrapping her wrist.

Jeanne Robinson shows her first tattoo, a red rose with swirl patterns around her wrist, that she got on her 80th birthday in Hamilton. (Diona Macalinga/CBC)

Robinson then decided

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