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The Fifty-Fifth Annual Review

作者: EmmelineT
last update publish date: 2026-06-14 22:00:42

The twenty-fifth notebook.

She opened it in January and has been writing in it with the new pen — the Carrer Verdi pen, the one without history, the one that is still acquiring its weight. Seven months of the new pen. The weight is beginning to settle in.

The twenty-fifth notebook. Fifty-five years of the second life requiring twenty-five notebooks. The accumulation visible in the row of them in the cabinet beside the desk — full, closed,

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