Colour traditional tattoo of an anatomical heart with flowers and leaves and the words you are the blood in my veins on the upper arm.

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Anatomical heart with flowers on an upper arm

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A colour tattoo of an anatomical heart sits on the upper arm, framed by orange flowers, green leaves and curved black script that reads you are the blood in my veins. The heart uses bold dark outlines with red and grey shading, and the flowers are filled with warm orange and yellow tones. The subject is photographed in soft window light against white bedding, with the tattoo as the clear focus and the person's face not shown.

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The tomatoes split on the vine the week the letter came, and Agnes Pardoe stood among the cane stakes reading it twice before the wind could take the page. Her brother had written from Lancaster in pencil, the way he always did when he was ashamed of something. Mum's heart had stopped doing its job properly, the doctor said, and the valves were the trouble, and there was talk of a machine that would do the pumping if she was brave enough for the operation. He wanted me to tell her, he wrote. He could not find the words.

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So I went up the lane with the letter folded in my apron pocket and found her at the kitchen table with a dish of runner beans, snapping the ends off like she was angry with them. I did not say the words he had asked me to say. I said that the beans were going to be a good crop this year, and she said they always were, and then I put my hand over hers on the bowl and held it there until she stopped snapping.

She went into Lancaster in March. The surgeon had a steady hand, Stephen wrote, and she sent back a postcard of the Ribble with a single line on the back: tell Agnes the orange lilies want dividing. I dug them up that autumn with the soil cold under my nails, and I kept the best bulbs, and I still think about what she meant by it.

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