Two fingers bearing black script lettering that spells Promise, with the letter O replaced by a heart, placed on the finger.

Promise lettering on two fingers

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Two fingers are shown side by side, each carrying the word Promise in black script lettering. A small heart forms the O in the word on both. The linework is solid and even, with the ink appearing crisp against the pale skin, and the photo is framed closely on the fingers with a soft, slightly warm background.

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No, sit where the lamp can reach you, because the bit about the lighthouse keeper's cat won't be told twice. Aye, the two girls from Carrick Quay. Nell Harrow and Bet Lowry, who shared one pair of boots between them until the summer they were sixteen and the herring boats came in short of a crew.

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The boats took their fathers that August. Nell's man went out on the Morning Star and Bet's on the Kittiwake, and the two of them stood on the end of the pier with the wind pulling their hair across their mouths. Nobody had told them what to say. So Nell took a pen from the chandler's counter, and Bet held out her hand, and along the first finger of that hand Nell wrote the word 'Promise' in her clumsy, looping script. In the curl of the O she drew a small heart, because she had seen her mother do the same on the flyleaf of a hymnbook.

Bet did the same on Nell's finger. Then they swore they would never walk past the wall without the other.

Forty years on, the ink has greened a little at the edges, and the Kittiwake still sits in the harbour museum with a brass plate. Every spring Nell and Bet walk down to the pier with their hands in their coat pockets, and they never once take them out, because the words are still there and the tide is making. Mind the step.

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