Black script tattoo reading Stay Strong with a small heart on the inner wrist, styled as lettering and worn beside gold bracelets.

Stay Strong script on a wrist

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a wrist with the words Stay Strong tattooed in flowing black script, the S and T of Strong extended into looping strokes. A small heart sits beneath the final flourish, and a gold bangle and stacked bracelets rest beside it. The ink is solid black with crisp linework, set against a soft floral fabric in pink and cream.

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Dear Sam,

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The snow came down the coast on Tuesday and has not let up since, so the boats are tied up at Skerrow and your father has been sitting by the range turning his cap over in his hands as if it owed him money. I know you wanted to hear he was in good spirits. He isn't, but he is eating, which Mrs Pardoe says is the first sign with men of his sort.

I went up to the chapel loft this morning to fetch the old brass lamp you left behind, the one with the cracked chimney. Under it was your school copybook, the page where you practised your capitals until they looped like a swan's neck. You wrote the same two words down every line, Stay strong, and I used to tease you that a boy of nine had no business being so solemn. I see now you were writing them for yourself.

Pack your good wool socks and don't argue with me about the wages. When the thaw comes and the Brenda is refloated, you'll have your berth again. Until then I'll keep the fire banked and the lamp trimmed in the window so you can see it from the headland if the weather lifts. Tell Jim Carrick the kettle is on at ours any hour he likes.

Your loving mam, Hannah

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