Fine line black script tattoo reading girl take pride in what you wanna do, with a small red xo at the end, across the upper back near the shoulder.

Handwritten quote across upper back

Fine line · Back · Mixed · Photo

A close-up photograph of a handwritten script quote in thin black linework running diagonally across the upper back, reading girl take pride in what you wanna do. A small red xo sits at the upper right end of the line. The skin shows freckles and a dark garment strap at the top edge, and the photo is evenly lit with the text in sharp focus.

Fine line Lettering Back Quote Script Handwriting

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The dress is finished, though I've not pressed it yet, so don't go judging the hem until Saturday. Mrs Hollis wants it for the Whitstable dance and she has already sent back twice to say the sleeves are too puffed, which they are not. I told her a girl cannot be argued into a shape she was never cut for.

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Your mother came round on Tuesday with the bus timetable copied out in her best hand and a tin of shortbread she had been saving since Easter. She sat in my kitchen and said London would eat you alive, and I said London has been eating people alive since before the Romans and still hasn't got full. We had a laugh. Then she cried over the tea, so I put a tea towel over the sugar bowl and pretended not to see.

Before you go, I want you to take the brass thimble. It was my mother's and it has a dent on one side from forty years at the same treadle machine. When the work is hard and the foreman looks straight past you, put it on your finger and remember who taught you your first seam. And remember what I said on the platform: girl, take pride in what you wanna do. I know it sounds like something off a tea caddy, but I meant every word.

Write the night the bus gets in. Xo