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The first time she opened the portable Word, the window breathed out a list of recent documents she did not recognize. They had no dates, only titles: For El, For the River, For the Horse that Forgot Its Name. Each one was a story waiting with the patience of knives. She read El’s letter and felt, for a second, the hollowness inside the walls of the building where she worked: a municipal archive where people left their lives in labeled boxes and assumed the world would keep them safe.

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