Black and grey photo of two small solid black butterfly tattoos, one on each ankle, worn with lace-up heeled shoes.

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The photograph shows the backs of two ankles, each with a small solid black butterfly tattoo, and the wearer is in dark lace-up heeled shoes on a gravel surface. The butterflies have simple, bold black shapes with little interior detail, and the outlines are clean against the skin. The image is black and white, so the composition is centred on the matching ankle tattoos and the shoes.

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Nobody at the Crescent Ballroom knew your name that first Thursday, only that you came in alone and left before the last waltz. Ruth on the cloakroom hatch started calling you Butterfly because of the black silk shapes you kept pinning to your coat, cut from an old evening glove with her good scissors. She said they looked like something you'd wish on a windowpane.

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Then Walter asked you to dance a quickstep you had no hope of managing. You trod on his left foot three times and laughed so hard the band stopped to look. He didn't mind. He held you steady by the elbows and counted under his breath, one, two, quick, quick, and somewhere in the third turn the floor stopped feeling like a deck and started feeling like ground.

By spring you were teaching him the foxtrot in the back passage, the two of you tapping out steps on the lino while Ruth pretended not to watch through the hatch. He asked what the butterflies meant. You told him they were only cut from the glove, nothing more, and he nodded as if that were a perfectly good reason to wear something.

On the last night the hall was sold, Ruth pressed a paper bag into your hands. Inside were two more shapes, identical, still smelling of the cloakroom's lavender. You pinned one to each side of his collar and said nothing, and the band struck up anyway.

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