Two people seen from behind, each with a black script quote on the shoulder, one reading I'll love you forever and the other a matching phrase.

Matching script quotes on two shoulders

Lettering · Shoulder · Black and grey · Photo

Two people are photographed from behind, with a black script phrase on each shoulder. The left reads "I'll love you forever" and the right is a matching phrase, both in thin, flowing black lettering. The plain white wall behind them has small photographs hanging from a cord, and the skin tones and soft natural light give the image a casual, home-taken feel.

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The telegram had cost Nell fourpence a word, so she counted them out on the back of an envelope before she handed the form across the counter to Mr Pryce. Four words, and she had spelt forever wrong in the draft before getting it right. Her sister Ada had gone up to the pass with the surveyors in May, and Nell wanted something that would reach her at the hut before the snow came down the valley.

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Ada's answer arrived nine days later, pencilled on the back of a survey sheet and folded small enough to fit a matchbox. The message was almost the same. Only one word had changed. Ada had written I'll like you for always, and underneath, in a smaller hand: love is a thing you can be too sure of. Liking is what you keep choosing. Nell read it at the kitchen table and was furious for a full minute, then she laughed until the kettle boiled dry.

In October she took the early bus up the valley road with the sheet folded in her coat pocket. The cairns along the pass were white on one side, and the surveyors' red flags snapped on their poles. Ada was outside the hut stitching a torn strap on a rucksack, and she looked up without any surprise at all, as if she had been expecting the bus.

They argued about the wording for most of an hour, sitting on an upturned crate with their boots in the thin snow. In the end Nell took the pencil from behind Ada's ear and wrote something new on the back of her own telegram form. Ada read it, said it was daft, and pinned it beside her own slip on the hut's notice board, one above the other, the rain already blurring both sets of letters.