The package had been forwarded twice.The first address was the old Seattle office, the one they had vacated eighteen months ago when the lease had ended and the new space had been ready. That office’s post had been redirected to the new address as a matter of course, which Jennifer had managed with the thoroughness she applied to administrative transitions. The second address was a building in London that Grace no longer used as her primary base, which had forwarded it to Seattle as a matter of course once it had sat uncollected for sixty days.The original postmark was twenty-two months ago.It arrived on a Monday in a padded envelope that had acquired, over its journey, the particular quality of a thing that had been handled by many pairs of hands and had survived all of them. Grace’s name was written on the outside in a hand she recognised from the correspondence — careful, deliberate, the hand of someone who had had a great deal of time to learn how to form letters with attention
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