Two wrists pressed together, each with one half of a fine line yin yang tattoo, one outlined in black and one solid black, both on the inner wrist.

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Two wrists are held together, and each carries one half of a yin yang symbol. The left half is a thin black outline with a small dot, while the right half is solid black with a white dot, so the two halves complete the circle when placed side by side. The linework is clean and simple, with no shading, and the plain light background keeps the focus on the ink.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nell had painted the disc on the back step with her mother's stove blacking, a half-moon of black on one side and bare tin on the other, and she had been fierce about the dots. A black dot in the white, a white dot in the black. "So it knows where it belongs," she said, and Bess, who was eleven and sure of nothing, took the white half because it looked like the one that had been left out in the rain.

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Hollin Bank had two shifts and one lamp-room, and the lamp-room man, Mr Abbot, took a brass check from every man going down so the overman could count who was below. The girls had watched their fathers hang their checks on the board every morning since they could walk. When Bess's father was offered work at the glassworks in Sheffield, he shook hands with Nell's father over the yard wall, and the two of them laughed about it as if it were a joke with a long punchline.

Bess left on the carrier's cart in March, the white half wrapped in a handkerchief and tucked inside her coat. For a year they wrote on the backs of seed packets, which cost less than paper. The letters got shorter. Nell's mother said that was how it went with girls who were growing up and leaving.

In the second spring Bess came back for her grandmother's wake, and the two of them stood at the window of the chapel hall with their halves pressed flat against the glass. The light came through the tin and the dots lined up. Nell laughed, and it came out wet. "Look," she said. "It's whole from this side."