Black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back of a woman seen from behind in a hot tub, reading I'm the hero of this story.

Quote tattoo across the upper back

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A woman seen from behind sits in a hot tub with her hair pulled up into a loose bun. Two lines of black serif lettering in a typewriter-style font run across her upper back, reading "I'm the hero of this story. I don't need to be saved." The ink is dark and solid, set against a bamboo fence and the blue edge of the tub.

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Dear Tom,

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The Bramley trees came into fruit early this year, so the pickers are up the ladders by seven and the whole valley smells of windfalls and wasp-sticky sugar. Your mother's old Olivetti is still on the kitchen table where you left it, under a tea towel to keep the dust off. I typed this on it this morning, because the letters I wrote by hand all sounded like pleading, and I am tired of pleading.

Mrs Okafor from the cooperative came to ask whether we would sell the lower orchard to the estate people. She had a folder with the figures printed in bold. I told her I had read the figures already, and also the letter from the solicitor, the one you sent in April without a stamp on it. Then I rolled a sheet into the machine and typed the line you once shouted across the Christmas table: I'm the hero of this story. I don't need to be saved. I pushed the paper towards her so she could see it was mine and not yours. She laughed, which I had not expected.

Here is what I want you to know. I do not need you to come back and rescue the place. The grafts are taking, the bees are back in the hives, and on Thursday the cider press will run for the first time since your father died. I would like you to be there for it, though. That is a different request, and I have typed it out plainly so there is no mistaking it.

Come on the last Saturday of the month. Bring a proper jumper. The nights are cold up here now.

Love, Ruth

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