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Cartoon tiger forming a heart on ribs
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A bold cartoon tiger stands upright with its tail curling at the bottom left, and its paws meet in front of its chest to form a heart outline. The thick black linework is filled with orange ink, with black stripes and a white muzzle and belly. The tattoo sits on the side of the torso against plain skin, with the subject centred in the frame.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
The Long Cat was already waiting by the bus shelter when the night-men rolled the shutters down on Carrow Street, tall as a lamppost and twice as stubborn. Nobody had ever told him he could not stand there, so he did, and the market crowd called him the Long Cat and left crusts for him on the bench.
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One February the baker's daughter, Mabel Orr, lost the ring her grandmother had left her, and she sat on the kerb crying into her scarf. The tiger leaned over the railings, one striped arm stretched out like a washing line, and fished it from a drain under the stall of dead lilies. He held it up to the streetlamp to check it was gold, then handed it over with a flourish that nearly tipped her into the gutter.
She asked him what he wanted for it. He thought about this for the length of three bus departures. Then he folded his paws together in front of his chest and made a heart, and that was all the payment he would take, though what it meant depended on who was looking.
Mabel went home. The tiger climbed back to his wall. The bakery light stayed on past midnight, the lamps on Carrow Street kept humming, and nobody in the city could say for certain which of them had been keeping watch on the other.
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