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The three boxing gloves on his arm represent his first three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in NYC, and his grandfather was also a boxer. (Ed also happens to play a boxer in his "Shape of You" video.) The three-leaf clover is for his "grandad," who was Irish.

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