Fine line black outline of a heart tattooed on the inner forearm of a person lying on a white sheet, with sunlight falling across the arm.

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Outline heart tattoo on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A single black outline of a heart sits on the inner forearm, drawn with a thin, even line and no shading or fill. The skin is warm toned and the arm rests on a white sheet, with dappled sunlight crossing the forearm and wrist. Two braided bracelets and a ring are visible, and the tattoo is the only ink in the frame.

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Dear Marjorie, the sheet on the spare bed still smells of the lavender you pressed into the linen cupboard, and I have not had the heart to strip it. The tide took the lower steps of the slipway on Tuesday, so Father has been sandbagging the boat shed with the last of the Ogden cement, cursing every bag. I told him the wind would have to wait its turn. He did not laugh, which is how I knew he was worried about the Hollis boy's skiff, still out past the Carrick buoy.

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The boy came back at dawn, sunburnt and sheepish, with a catch of pollock and a story about a seal that had followed him home. I drew a heart on his wrist with my good fountain pen while he was waiting for the kettle, just a single line, the way you taught me to trace the tide chart. He said it would wash off by Sunday. I told him that was the point of ink on a boy who never listens.

You will think me soft. Perhaps I am. But the sun came through the curtain just then and laid stripes across his arm like a lighthouse beam pulled to pieces, and I thought of you walking the cliff path with your umbrella held like a sword. Come home when the road opens. The heart is still there on his arm, and Father says he will keep it until it fades.

Your loving sister, Ada

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