Two black and grey outline four-leaf clover tattoos, one on each forearm, shown in a fine line style.

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Two arms rest together, each with a small outlined four-leaf clover tattoo on the inner forearm, made of heart-shaped petals. The linework is thin and even with no shading, and the tattoos are identical in size and design. The plain light background keeps the focus on the two marks.

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Dear Nell, the ink man on Broad Street would not touch the needle until I had shown him the drawing twice, and then he only agreed because I had the shilling in my hand and Mother was still at the chemist. He worked the clover into my skin in small, patient strokes, a wasp trapped in a jam jar buzzing the whole time, and he kept telling me to hold still as though I might fly off before he finished. I did not cry. You would have, and then you would have pretended the needle was the reason.

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You remember the summers behind the mill, counting clovers on our bellies in the long grass. We found thirty-one three-leaf ones and not one with four, and you said that was the field's way of telling us we were not to be lucky. So I decided we would make our own luck, and the ink man said that was a fine reason to get anything done. He held his pencil over the tracing paper and said nobody buys a plain leaf, so he gave the petals little hearts for edges, and a stem so thin it might have been a hair.

He drew a second one for you while I watched, and folded it into this envelope with a bit of blotting paper so the lines would not smudge on the train. Your ship leaves Liverpool on Thursday, and I know you will tell the purser you have nothing to declare. Put the stencil on the inside of your wrist and go to a man who will not talk your ear off. When you are at the rail with the gulls shrieking over the water, hold your arm beside mine in your head. Two clovers, four petals each, and not a single leaf left to chance.

Your loving sister, June

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