Colour tattoo of two cartoon characters kissing inside a black outline, with the words BUT LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING on a banner, on the outer thigh.

Cartoon couple kissing with quote on thigh

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A colour tattoo of two cartoon characters kissing, one with dark hair and a green streak and the other with a red hood and a purple cape. Bold black outlines and flat areas of colour give it a comic-book look, and a speech banner above reads BUT LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING. The design is set in a rounded panel on the outer thigh and is shown in a close, straight-on photograph.

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Gather in, you lot, and mind the lamp, because this is the story my grandmother told me, and she had it from a woman who sold printed paper off a cart on the Thames wall, back when the river still ran brown and nobody had yet bottled the sea. In those days folk kept pictures of people who never lived, drawn in heavy black ink and coloured flat, and the drawings had a habit of talking through little white boxes above their heads.

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Two of them lived on one such sheet: a dark-haired lad with a green streak swept off his brow like a wave going over, and a girl in a red hood with a purple cape that swallowed her to the ankles. They had been drawn to fight. Every page the sheet passed through was another battle, a fist or a wall or a runaway train, and every panel ended with them flat on the paper, glaring. Nobody had ever drawn them doing anything else.

Then one wet winter the cart-woman's grandson, bored with his lessons, took a pen to the margin and drew a line between their two faces. Just one line, curved like a question. The ink dried, the page was folded into a sailor's pocket, and that pocket went to sea for eleven years. When it came home, the little box above them had a new sentence in it, the one my grandmother always said slowly, the way I'm saying it now: But love changes everything.

The boy kept the sheet in a tin under his bunk for the rest of his days, and when the children asked why the two on the paper had stopped throwing punches, he only shrugged and said they had simply got tired of the margin. Now go on, the lamp's guttering, and the sea is listening.

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