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Profile woman with teal roses on a thigh
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A woman in profile wears a teal headband and has black hair styled in curls and rolls, decorated with yellow and pink flowers and green leaves. Below her, two teal roses sit beside a yellow banner reading LOVE IS BLIND, all framed by bold black outlines and solid fills. The image is a close crop of the skin on the outer thigh, with the colour ink dominating the composition.
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Aunt Vi tied the teal ribbon round my head at half past eight, pinching my hair into rolls the way she had for her own wedding in 1962, and told me not to move while she worked. The florist had sent blue roses instead of cream, which Vi called a sin, and the church hall smelled of Brasso and cheap sherry.
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Dad was still in the car park with his cufflinks in his fist, unable to decide whether he was coming in. He had been married to Mum for thirty-one years and had never once been seen crying in public, so the whole family assumed he was going to make a scene of it. I went out in my slippers and found him leaning on the bonnet of the car, watching a gull pick at a chip wrapper on the sea wall.
What do you say to a man about to hand over your sister? I told him the truth: that Gerry Pike had already shouted at the vicar about the parking, that the cake had three tiers and only the bottom one was edible, and that none of it mattered because Lil was grinning at the lectern like she had never once been afraid. Dad read the banner Vi had stitched across the back pew, LOVE IS BLIND, and laughed until he had to sit on the wall.
We went in together. Lil saw him first and the room went quiet, and she said, loud enough for the back row, that she would have married him in the dark. Dad fixed his cufflinks one at a time and held my hand all the way down the aisle, where the whole of Ramsgate could see.
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