Colour realism-style plumeria flower tattoo in pink, purple and yellow on the top of a bare foot, beside a US quarter for scale.

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Plumeria flower tattoo on the foot

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A five-petalled plumeria flower sits on the top of a bare foot, with the petals shaded from magenta at the edges to yellow at the centre. The linework is soft and blended, with the shading giving the petals a rounded, dimensional look. A US quarter rests beside the toes, showing the flower is small and the photo is taken against a dark leather-like background.

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You keep the cutting on the sill of flat 41 in Ferndale House, wedged in a jam jar of tap water, because your nan swore a plumeria only roots if you stop fussing over it. Fourteen floors below, the car park lamps come on one by one. The stem has gone grey and papery, with nothing green on it yet, and you check it every morning before the kettle goes on, the way you used to check whether Dad's van had turned the corner.

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The flower came from her balcony on the eighth floor, the one with the pink plastic chairs and Radio Two always murmuring behind the door. She kept it in a terracotta pot that she dragged indoors every October. Its petals were pale yellow at the heart and magenta at the rim, like a sunset someone had over-egged. "Take a bit," she said, snapping the stem with her thumbnail. "Don't tell the council." You carried it up in a Tesco bag because the lift was out again.

Her son came back from Tampa last week and set a quarter beside the jar without a word. It was the coin she used to give the ice cream van man, and he'd been carrying it since he was a boy. You flipped it on the sill to settle an argument you'd both forgotten, and it landed tails, so you left it there with the silver face turned up toward the glass.

On Thursday a pale green nub split the bark just below the top leaf. You didn't tell anyone. You only moved the jar a little closer to the window.

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