Fine line script lettering reading Stay Strong with a small heart and loose flourishes, drawn in black on a white background.

Stay Strong script with heart

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A single-line handwritten script reads "Stay Strong" with a small heart after the final letter. Thin, even black linework forms the letters and long looping tails that extend beneath the words. The design is shown in black alone on a plain white background with no body placement visible.

Fine line Lettering Script Stay strong Heart Flourish Lettering

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Dear Joe, The ovens were already roaring when your letter came, so I read it by the light of the proving cupboard with flour on my hands, which is why there is a thumbprint on the second page. Mr Abbott says the sourdough has gone sulky in this damp weather and will not rise before five, so I have had two cups of tea and a stubborn sort of hope.

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You asked whether the shop still does the long tins on a Tuesday. It does, though the rota has changed. Maureen has the early bake now and I have the cooling racks, which means I am up at half three in the dark with nothing but the radio and the slow tick of the flour sacks settling. The street is empty then. Only the milk float and a gull or two disturb the lamp outside the window.

I have started a habit. Before the first batch comes out, I take the paring knife and score a small heart into the top of the very first loaf, the one nobody buys because it always comes out lopsided. I left one for you. Don't look for it in the post. It is in the tin at the back of the shop, wrapped in greaseproof, and the lad from the corner shop has promised to keep it from going stale until you are home.

Stay strong, you wrote at the bottom, and I have been turning that over all morning. The dough does not know it is being watched or worried over. It just folds, rests and rises in the dark, and by six it is gold. Write when the post is good. Your loving sister, Nell.