Black handwritten script reading 'i am not afraid to walk this world alone' across the inner forearm, in a fine lettering style.

Handwritten quote on the inner forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a three-line handwritten quote in black ink across the inner forearm, reading 'i am not afraid to walk this world alone'. The lettering uses thin, even linework with a casual, slanted script and consistent spacing. The skin is pale and the background is a blurred grey pavement with greenery, so the text is the clear focus.

Lettering Forearm Quote Script Text Handwriting

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Dear Hettie, the ferry from Harwich was late again, so I am writing this on the back of the timetable while a deckhand swears at a rope somewhere behind me. You will want to know whether Mother has forgiven me. She has not, but she has started laying a place for me at Sunday dinner and then pretending she did not.

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I have the address Aunt Ruth gave me, written in her wobbling capitals on the flap of a cigarette packet. Lodgings on Canal Street, above a cobbler's, and I am to ask for a Mr Abernethy and say the name of the boat we came over on. I have decided to go regardless. Tell Father I am not frightened of the city. I copied a line out of the hymnbook on Tuesday so I would believe it by Friday: I am not afraid to walk this world alone. It seemed a sensible thing to carry in my pocket with the ticket.

The gull that followed us out of the harbour is still on the rail, looking at me as though it has paid its fare. I asked the steward whether birds were allowed, and he said only the ones with papers. I laughed so hard I had to sit down on my trunk, and a woman in a green hat gave me a look that could have stripped paint.

Keep my room aired and the kettle full. If Mother asks, tell her I was brave, and that she may be proud of me when she is good and ready. Yours, Margaret. P.S. I have put the stamp with the lighthouse on it in the tin for your collection, the one you wanted so badly. Don't let Father steam it off.