Colour traditional-style tattoo of a cartoon girl with orange pigtails holding a doll, set against a pink heart, on the forearm.

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Cartoon girl with doll on a heart

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A cartoon girl with orange pigtails and a sulky expression holds a small doll with spiky hair in her arm. She is set against a pink heart with a soft pink backdrop. Bold black outlines define the shapes, with flat areas of orange, red, blue and pink, and the skin is lightly shaded.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the lot of you, and mind the kettle, because this is the true account of Dora Quill and the winter the lamp went out at Pennick Point. You'll have heard it wrong at the Feathers. They say she was born cross. She was not. She was born ordinary, and it was the photographer from Hastings who made her cross, for he told her to smile at the camera while the wind took the hat clean off his head.

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She would not. She folded her arms and stuck out her chin the way the gulls do when they've been robbed, and she tucked her rag doll Mrs Spindle under one elbow as a sort of witness. Mrs Spindle had hair like a bramble and no face worth mentioning. Between them they had decided the world was a wrong turn. Her father, Tom Quill, keeper of the light, tried bribes, then sweets, then a whole week of Sunday ferry rides, and each time Dora only looked up at the lamp with her pigtails bristling and said nothing at all.

Then came the November fog that swallowed the bay whole. The Margate boat was out, the lamp had a cracked mantle, and Tom was up at the top with a spanner and a temper. Dora climbed the iron stair in her red striped jumper, Mrs Spindle under her arm, and handed him the spare mantle without a word. She set it in with the steady hands of a girl who had never once let anyone see her frightened.

The boat came home by the light that night. Dora never did smile for the photographer, and the picture from Hastings still hangs in the Feathers, her arms folded, the doll pinned under one of them like a passenger. Ask her about it and she'll tell you it was a perfectly good sulk, and she'd like the record to show it kept four men alive.

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