Colour traditional tattoo of a cartoon woman with dark bob hair and glasses, framed by three banners reading I am a smart strong sensual woman, with roses on a calf.

Cartoon character with banner lettering on calf

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A cartoon woman with a dark bob haircut, round glasses and a pale green top stands in the centre, wearing black shoes and red socks. Three scrolling banners across her body carry the lettering I AM A SMART STRONG SENSUAL WOMAN, with bold black outlines and flat fills in the traditional style. Red and green roses with leaves frame the design on either side, and the tattoo is shown in full colour on a lower leg against a studio background.

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Dear Denise,

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I know you said you'd sooner have a root canal than go back to Ashby Comprehensive, so I'll keep this short. I'm writing on the back of the raffle sheet because the hall smells of floor polish and I can't sit still. Gail Harker organised the whole thing. She rang me in March from a phone box outside Tesco, which I didn't know still existed, and asked if I remembered where the old sports day banners had ended up. They were in the caretaker's cupboard behind the stacked chairs, rolled up with a dead wasp in one of them.

They're hanging over the stage now, three long strips of felt with gloss paint gone chalky at the edges. Mrs Oddie painted the lettering the year before she retired, and she'd outlined every letter in black so thick it looked like it might drip. Someone had stuck paper roses on either side, the red ones already browning. Gail stood under them at seven o'clock with a bag of safety pins and a face like a sergeant major, and by eight we'd all forgotten what we'd come for.

Then Priya Shah, who was sent home for wearing wellies to Year Nine assembly, climbed onto a chair and read the middle banner out loud. Nobody laughed. The man from the chip shop, who used to pelt us with conkers, put his hand over his mouth. Priya said she'd spent thirty years assuming Mrs Oddie had meant it as a joke, and she'd only just realised she'd been wrong.

When they took the banners down, Gail folded them carefully into the box that once held the boots for the netball team. She asked me to take it home. It's on the passenger seat now, and I keep glancing over at it at the lights.

Write back soon. Tell me you're coming next time.

Love, Maureen

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