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SERA

“She sent something.”

Kofi said it at nine on a Monday morning in May, three weeks after both threads entered the permanent collection, looking at his screen with the expression he wore when something arrived that needed to be delivered carefully.

“Kouassi Adjoua’s granddaughter,” he said. “From Accra. She has been in the seventh cohort for four months. She sent a message to the institute this morning. She said it is for Helena but she wanted to send it through the institute first. She sai
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