Two photos of black handwritten script tattoos on the inner wrists, one reading xoxo Mom and the other reading Love you Dad.

Handwritten xoxo Mom and Love you Dad on wrists

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The image shows two photographs of wrist tattoos. The top photo shows the words xoxo and Mom in thin black handwriting-style script on the inside of a wrist, with a ring on one finger. The lower photo shows Love you and Dad in similar black script on another inner wrist, with a ring visible on a finger of the opposite hand.

Lettering Forearm Mom Dad Handwriting Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind the puddles by the fish stalls, they're deeper than they look. Pull that upturned crate under the awning, where the drip misses you. The rain never stopped the scribe at the end of the row, and it never stopped the letters either. Men off the boats came to Hal Pringle's table with a stub of pencil and a grievance, and he gave them ink, a clean sheet and a steady hand.

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One November a dock porter called Tomasz Wren sat down with a face like wet cardboard and asked Hal to write to his daughter in Gdańsk. Hal wrote every word the man said, and when Tomasz reached the end he stopped, pressed his thumb flat on the paper and said, now the last bit in your hand, not mine. So Hal wrote Love you, Dad, small and slanted, the way his mother had taught him at a kitchen table with a cold cup of tea going skin on top.

The reply came in February, folded inside a Polish calendar, and Tomasz brought it to the stall with a grin that split his face in two. The daughter had written in a looping, careful hand that she had carried the first letter in her coat all winter. At the bottom she had put a row of crosses and circles, and beneath them, in pencil pressed hard enough to dent the page, Tata says hello too.

Hal read it aloud twice because Tomasz asked him to. Then he took the calendar page home and pinned it above the sink, where he could see those crosses every time he rinsed a cup.