Black script lettering reading Vivere senza rimpianti runs vertically down the side of a person's back, above a black open-back dress.

Vertical Italian script quote on a back

Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a vertical line of cursive script tattooed along the side of a person's back, reading Vivere senza rimpianti. The lettering is in black ink with fine to medium strokes and varied letter heights, and it follows a slight diagonal from the shoulder area down towards the waist. The skin is smooth and lit softly against a blue backdrop, and a black dress with a deep open back frames the tattoo.

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Tomas, your mother says you have been standing in the hallway of that flat for three weeks with the Leeds letter in your hand, reading it the way you read a bus timetable. Stop it. I have enclosed the card from the shop on Via Fillungo, the one with the calligraphy your grandfather loved, because he copied that line onto the back of every invoice he wrote for forty years. Vivere senza rimpianti. He said it was not advice, only a description of how he had tried to live, and that he failed at it often enough to know the difference.

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I do not want you to take the job for my sake, or your mother's, or because a man in an office in Yorkshire likes your drawings. Take it or leave it for reasons that are yours. Last Thursday I walked to the bakery and back on the bad knee and I thought about the ferry in 1971 that you will never hear me describe without adding a complaint about the wind. I did not get on it. I have regretted that less than you would think, and more than I pretend.

The ink on your grandfather's card has faded to the colour of weak tea, but the pen strokes still lean forward, as if the letters are walking somewhere. Write to me from wherever you decide to stand. Tell me the weather. I will read it aloud to the cat.

Your Nonna, who is not crying, so do not ask.

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