Black fine-line Greek lettering across the top of a foot, near the toes, against a dark background.

Greek lettering on the top of a foot

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A bare foot is shown in profile against a black background, with a metallic-coloured nail on the big toe. A single Greek word is written in clean, solid black lowercase letters across the top of the foot, angled slightly upward toward the toes. The linework is crisp and even, with the photo lit to focus on the tattoo and the skin tone.

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Mrs Kalliope Dimas had sorted the post in the back room of the Ship Inn for eleven years, and she knew a sister's handwriting before she knew the stamp. This envelope came up from Plymouth on a wet Tuesday in March 1956, addressed in pencil to Miss Irene Vassilakis, care of the bakery on Fore Street. Irene was at the sink with her sleeves rolled to the elbow, scrubbing flour from her forearms.

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"It's from Athens," Kalliope said, though she could see it was not. The hand was too neat for a stranger. Irene dried her palms on her apron, took the envelope, and did not open it. She turned it over twice, then set it on the windowsill where the light off the harbour caught the cheap paper.

They had not spoken since the boat left Piraeus. Irene had come west to marry a man she had met once at a dance, and the marriage had ended in the spring rains of 1953, leaving her with a room above the bakery and a language nobody in the town spoke. Kalliope had written every month for three years, always the same word at the foot of the page, adelphe, printed large so it could not be mistaken for a greeting.

Irene read the letter standing up. When she finished she folded it into quarters, took the pencil from behind her ear, and wrote one word beneath her own name on the back of the envelope. Then she handed it across the counter. "Post it," she said. "Tell her I wrote it back."

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