Two matching black anchor tattoos with script reading twin 1 and twin 2, one on each ankle, in a lettering style.

Matching anchor tattoos with twin 1 and twin 2

Lettering · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

Two ankles are shown side by side, each with a small black anchor tattoo paired with script reading twin 1 on the left and twin 2 on the right. The linework is bold and even, filled in solid black with no shading or colour. A coloured woven anklet sits on the right ankle, and the soft focus background shows red bedding.

Lettering Ankle Anchor Script text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ruth, the harbour wall at Brixham has a new crack in it since you left, and Mam swears the gulls have started nesting in the lifeboat shed out of spite. I'm writing from the back step with my feet in a basin of cold tea because the doctor says the swelling will go down by Sunday if I keep them up, and I have never been good at keeping still.

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You'll remember the anchor Dad drew on the back of the chandlery bill, the one we both wanted and he wouldn't let us have until we were sixteen. Well, Mr Pascoe at the parlour in Torquay said he'd do it for half price if we sat still, and we didn't, so he charged us full and gave us a lollipop each. I still have mine in a tin with the bus tickets. The word twin went on in his curly script, with the number after, so nobody could ever mix us up at the regatta again, though I expect they still do.

I'm enclosing a photograph of mine next to yours, the way they looked on the bedspread that night, because I thought you'd like to see how the ink settled. Yours is the one with the rainbow thread from Sophie. Come home at Easter. The boat's still in the mud and I need someone to tell me which end of the tiller is which.

Your sister, always the one on the left, Jo