Fine line black script tattoo of a short phrase running down the side of a woman's back, shown from behind in a backless black dress.

Script phrase along a back

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A woman wearing a backless black halter dress is photographed from behind, with her hair in a loose bun. A thin, black, cursive script phrase runs vertically down the side of her back, beside the shoulder blade. The linework is delicate and even, with no shading, and the plain skin tone and dark clothing keep the focus on the lettering.

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The letter came on the Tuesday boat, folded twice and smelling of tar, and Edith read it standing in the doorway of the ticket office at the Pier Ballroom with her thumb holding her place. Her brother Lucien wrote in pencil, in the same slanted hand he had used on their father's shop sign, and he had never once spelled a word the same way twice. The last line was underlined so hard the paper had torn: Vivre, Edie, and do not wait for anyone to tell you that you may.

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Behind her the Saturday band was tuning up, a saxophone squeaking through the same three notes it always squeaked through. Mr Pargeter, who had lettered every price card and dance programme in Margate since the Coronation, leaned on the rail with a brush behind his ear and watched her over his spectacles. He had seen the Calais stamp before she had. He did not ask. He only said the new cards for the mirror wanted a second coat, and would she mind holding the tin.

She held the tin. She held the ladder while he worked the thin black letters down the edge of the glass, the pen hair so fine that the first stroke looked like a scratch on the varnish. When he stepped back to admire it, she took the pencil from her apron and wrote her reply on the back of a dance card, in capitals, so there could be no mistaking it. Then she pinned it under the bar, where the boat men would see it, and went out to find her shoes.

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