“Poppy, can I ask why you have a tattoo of a daisy on your wrist? I would have thought you’d have a tattoo of a poppy?” Poppy smiles and strokes the small tattoo on her wrist. “Daisy is my grandmother. I told her once I wanted a tattoo, and she said over her dead body, anchors and mermaids and so on. So I went away, had this done, and showed it to her the next time I visited. I said ‘Daisy, meet daisy,’ and there wasn’t a lot she could say about it then, was there?” “Clever girl,” says Joyce. “Then two weeks later I went round again, and she rolled up her sleeve and said, ‘Poppy, meet poppy.’
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