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Heart padlock and heart key behind the ear
Other · Black and grey · Photo
The left photo shows a small solid black heart-shaped padlock with a keyhole cut into it, placed behind the ear. The right photo shows a small black heart-shaped key with a simple shaft, also behind the ear, on a different person with blue hair. Both tattoos are bold, simple silhouettes in black ink against pale skin, shown in a split-frame composition.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Dear Marnie, the boat is back in Lowestoft and the harbour smells of diesel and fried onions the way it always does when the Kittiwake comes in. I have your key on its loop in my jacket pocket, the brass one with the chipped bow, and every time the wind catches the tarpaulin I check it is still there. You said I would lose it at sea. I have not lost it. I have only been very careful with it.
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Mick Doyle says the padlock you bought from the chandler's on Battery Green is the only thing on this coast that has never been opened by anyone but its owner, which is a sentence I do not fully understand but I nod at him anyway. He has a heart on his own neck, faded to a bruise, from a girl in Grimsby he will not talk about. I told him yours is smaller. He said everything of ours was always smaller than it should be, and then he laughed till he coughed up tea.
We are out again Thursday for the cod, if the cod are where Skipper says. Forty hours, maybe more. I will be thinking about the gate at the bottom of your mother's garden and how the hinge sticks in wet weather. Put the padlock through the chain before you go to bed. Turn it twice. Then come down to the quay and tell me the sea has nothing on us.
Yours with the key, always, Tom
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