Black and grey realism tattoo of an older woman with glasses, curled hair and a pearl necklace, shown within an oval on skin.

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Black and grey portrait of an older woman

Realism · Black and grey · Photo

A realistic black and grey portrait of an older woman with short curled hair, round-framed glasses, a smile and a pearl necklace, wearing a patterned collared top and a dark jacket. Fine shading and soft grey tones build the face and hair, with darker areas defining the jacket and background. The portrait sits in an oval frame on reddish skin, with a few small marks visible around the edges.

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The photograph had been taken against a blue cloth in a shop that no longer exists, and Mariam Oduya held the passport under the desk lamp longer than the queue liked. The man at the window kept his hands flat on the counter, the way people do when they have practised not fidgeting. His name was Desmond Kerr, the book said, and he was forty-one, and the woman in the photo had the same jaw as him, which Mariam noticed and then decided was none of her business.

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She checked the watermark, the laminate, the small hologram that caught the light like a coin in a fountain. The print had faded at one corner, and someone had pressed a thumb there long ago, maybe to keep the picture flat while the glue dried. Thin pearls showed at the collar. The smile looked as if the photographer had just said something unkind about the weather and she had decided to forgive him for it.

"She's my aunt," Kerr said, when Mariam asked where the journey was ending. "Her sister's funeral. I'm carrying the papers because she couldn't face the drive." He said it without looking up, and Mariam understood that the story had been rehearsed on the ferry and that it was also simply true.

She stamped the page, slid the passport back under the glass, and let the next car roll forward. Then, because the photograph had kept her a moment longer than it should have, she wrote the date on the back of a slip of paper and tucked it in the drawer with the others, the ones she never threw away.

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