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Zelda Williams has come up with a new way to honor her father.

The daughter of Robin Williams, who tragically took his own life on August 11, debuted a permanent reminder of her dad on Instagram this week.

It’s a tattoo of a hummingbird in flight on her right hand, and it’s inked above her father’s birthdate, 7/21/51.

Note that she did not include his date of death.

“For poppo,” Williams captioned the image, adding:

“I’ll always put my hand out to shake with a smile” and then thanking the tattoo artist responsible for “so beautifully bringing my reminders to life.”

 

Zelda Williams, 25, was forced to quit social media for awhile just a couple days after her father’s suicide because she was harrassed by those who took umbrage with Robin Williams hanging himself.

She has since spoken out sporadically about her father’s passing, including on World Mental Health Day (October 10) when she urged people suffering from depression to seek assistance.

“Dad was, is and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I’ve ever known,” she wrote at the time.

“And while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world, but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence. We’ll just have to work twice as hard to fill it back up again.”