Traditional style tattoo of a woman in profile wearing peace sign sunglasses, with a white rose and teal leaves, on the upper arm.

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Traditional woman profile with rose on upper arm

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A woman's profile faces right, with black hair swept back, round peace sign sunglasses, and a teal lipstick shade. A white rose with teal leaves sits above her ear, and a red sun and fan-like pleated collar sit below the face. Bold black outlines and flat fills in red, yellow, blue, teal and green sit on the upper arm, with the tattoo filling most of the frame.

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Every night the lamps on Quay Street came on at nine, and every night Nell Varga pulled the shutters down on her fan stall and counted the takings into a biscuit tin. The fans were folded paper and lacquered wood, red for the sun, pleated like a lady's collar, and she sold them to sailors who wanted something to take home to their mothers.

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One Thursday a woman came along the quay with a white rose tucked behind one ear and round glasses with a coloured circle painted on each lens. She did not haggle. She took the red fan, opened it slowly, and held it up against the lamplight so the light came through the pleats in bars. 'How much for the sun?' she asked. Nell said she would take whatever the woman had, and the woman laughed and laid a single brass key on the counter.

The key fitted a door at the back of the chandler's shop, which had been shut since the flood. Behind it was a room full of paper fans, hundreds of them, each stamped with the same red sun, and a card on the wall that read: keep one open and keep the lamps lit. Nell understood it was a debt and not a gift. She sat with the key in her palm until the lamps across the water went out one by one.

In the morning her stall had been painted yellow overnight, and the biscuit tin held more coins than she had ever taken in a month. She kept the key on a string around her neck. Each evening at nine she opened one fan and set it in the window, so the quay would know the lamps were still on.

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