Soft pink botanical flower tattoo with a red and yellow centre on the upper chest near the shoulder.

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Pink flower on the upper chest

Botanical · Chest · Colour · Photo

A single flower with five soft petals in pale pink, with a red centre and fine radiating lines around a small yellow stamen. The edges are feathered and the petals have gentle shading, giving a watercolour-like finish. The flower sits on the upper chest near the collarbone, with plain skin and a grey top visible around it.

Botanical Chest Flower Petal Rose Blossom

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, sit down, the soup is still hot and the bride won't mind me taking the good chair. I'll tell you about Ada Penhale, who kept the orchard above Lyme when the war had taken every man in the valley but the vicar and the boy with the bad chest. She grew pink mallow along the garden wall, and every morning she pinched one bloom off and tucked it in her apron pocket, because a flower in the pocket meant the day was worth getting up for.

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Her husband Tom had sailed on the Halcyon in the spring of forty-one, and the letters stopped by autumn. Ada went on setting two cups out at breakfast all the same. Then one wet afternoon in March a sailor came up the lane with a tin box under his arm and a cough like a gull, and he asked for the woman who grew the mallow. She gave him tea, and he gave her the box. Inside was a flower pressed flat and pale as a fingernail, its red heart still bright as a struck match.

Ada laughed until she cried. It had been her wedding posy, and Tom had pressed one into his Bible the morning he left, meaning to bring it home. The sailor had found it among his effects and carried it across two oceans because nobody else knew where it belonged.

So when the bride's nan asked me to say a few words, I thought of that box. Lift your glasses to whatever you carry close to your heart. Keep it dry, and keep it near.