Day 7 - Magazine Inspiration
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Beetris by Rebecca McMeen
Summer Nights Collection by Bella Gypsy
Music to My Ears by Designed by Soco and ninigoesdigi
Garden Party Alphabets and
Good Times Alphabets by Pink Reptile Designs
Font is Times New Roman
Text reads:
The first question is the obvious one:
How many?
She looks at her hands, smiling as she holds up her fingers to wiggle them.
"Twenty-one. Not quite one for every year but close. It's hard to find them small enough to knuckle them up on my pinkies."
There are as many questions as rings on her fingers but again, go with the obvious.
"Why so many?"
That chases the smile away. She looks at her hands like she'll find an answer there. "I took off a ring I'd been wearing for half my life. I knew I needed to replace it with something else, but I couldn't decide what." She shrugs as her smile comes back. "A few years ago, I wrote a poem about how to keep loving yourself after catastrophic change; one of the lines is
decorate your dry, bruised hands. So I thought, okay. Maybe that will work. And since I'm a firm believer in too much is never enough ..."
Another shrug. I wait for her to say something else. She waits for another question.
"Which is your favorite?"
This time she laughs as she holds up the middle finger on her right hand. "This baby. I've been obsessed with bees ever since he left, since I took back the nickname he had for me. The ring reminds me that it's all mine now; I don't need him to call me Bee. I can call myself that. The crown just punctuates it. Makes it more obvious when I raise up my middle finger in frustration."
A thoughtful look comes around and she holds up her pinky on the same hand. It's adorned with a small silver band, capped off with two thin black rings. Hope is written on it, the letters stamped black into the worn silver.
"But sometimes I think this one is most important. This is the one that gets me through."
