Cross, heartbeat and heart with Faith Hope Love
Lettering · Black and grey · Flash
The image shows a black line drawing on a plain white background. A upright cross sits at the left, joined by a single heartbeat trace that rises and falls before curving into an open heart at the right. The words Faith, Hope and Love are written underneath in a flowing script, separated by small dots.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Ruth had been folding the ECG strips for thirty-one years, long rolls of paper printed with the peaks and dips of people she would never meet, and she had never once read one aloud. Her husband Dennis said it was morbid. She said it was only sums with a pen.
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The Thursday the new registrar arrived, a lad from Bristol with a small silver cross on a chain under his scrubs, he asked her what the squiggles meant. She showed him the trace of a man from ward four, how it leapt, dropped and leapt again, the way a dog runs at a gate. Then she told him the best trace was the one that looked like someone had stopped to catch their breath and decided to carry on.
Dennis collected her from the bus stop that evening in the old estate, and they drove past St Mary's, where the bells were practising for a Saturday wedding. Ruth counted the rings between the pauses. He asked what she was thinking. She said she was thinking the bride would have a steady pulse, which was more than most brides could claim.
On Saturday she sat near the back and watched the vicar's hands hold the rings, and when the couple turned to face the room her own heart did what it always did at the top of a rise, a little lurch, then the long, sure fall back down. She pressed her palm flat on her handbag and kept it there until the organ started.
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