Black script lettering reading I am enough the way I am runs across the upper back near the shoulder, with a thin gold chain visible at the neck.

Script quote across upper back

Lettering · Shoulder · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a black handwritten script tattoo across the upper back near the shoulder, reading I am enough the way I am followed by an ellipsis. The lettering has soft, slightly uneven strokes in black ink with no shading or colour. The wearer's dark hair and a thin gold chain frame the top of the image, and a grey top covers the lower edge.

Lettering Shoulder Quote Script Word Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomasz, you will read this on the boat and laugh at my handwriting, which has never been good, so I am writing slowly. Mam has taken to the chair by the range and will not say much, and the chapel roof has let the rain in over the second pew again. Mr Pryce from the bank came up on Tuesday with his papers and his good pen and asked whether the cottage might be sold once the spring lambs are counted. I told him the lambs are counted already, and so is the money, and he could take his pen somewhere warmer.

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Your last letter said the men on the ship call you the quiet one, and that you are thinking of signing for another year because you have nothing to prove at home. I read that line three times by the lamp. You are not a shortfall we must make up for with wages. Come home or stay away, but do not measure yourself against the brothers who shout louder than you do on the quay.

I have pinned your photograph above the dresser, the one where you squint into the wind at the harbour wall with your collar up. Under it, in the same ink I use for the ledger so it will not fade, I have written the words you used to say when you were six and wouldn't wear the wool vest: I am enough the way I am... The dots are for you to fill in, because I cannot decide whether it is a promise or a dare. Write back and tell me which.