Traditional style tattoo of a hand with a lace cuff, a strawberry on the back of the hand and small flowers and leaves below, on a forearm.

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Hand holding a strawberry on a forearm

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A hand with a lace-style cuff at the wrist holds a stem, with a red strawberry on the back of the hand and green leaves and small white flowers below. The hand is shaded in grey with bold black outlines, while the strawberry, leaves and red-tipped details carry the colour. The design is centred on the forearm against a plain blue background.

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Her mother had always said never to take the first berry from a stranger's hand, so when the tall man at the gate held one out on his open palm, Nell kept both of her hands in her apron pockets and asked him what he wanted for the wall.

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He wanted the field. Every June the strawberries on the hill above Cressley came up sweeter than anywhere in the county, and every June the lane sent its children up to pick them, and every June one child stayed behind in the rows and was not seen again until the frost. The man said he would take the field and plant her a better one under the church, where the ground was softer and the bees were kinder.

Nell said a field was a field and she had never cared for churches. She pulled a stem from the bramble by the gate, stripped the leaves from it, and held the bare stalk out between two fingers, the way a cook offers a spoon to be tasted. The man took it. Where his hand closed around the wood, his fingers lengthened and a cuff of lace-edged ivy crept up from his wrist and stopped just short of his elbow, as if it had been told where to stop.

The field went to the stranger that night, and the children came home with their baskets full. Nell kept her wall. Every June after that, a single red berry swelled on the back of the stranger's hand, and every June he walked the lane with it held out to the first child who asked him for nothing.

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