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The book came in the post on a Thursday.
A package from Lisbon — Catalina's handwriting on the outside, recognizable from the notes she'd left on the kitchen table during her five weeks at the house. Inside: a book. A slim volume, its cover designed with the specific restraint of a publisher who trusted the text to carry its own weight. The title in English and then below it, in Portuguese, the same title in its translated form.
Inside the front cover, a handwritten note: First copy. For the house where I learned what I was for. — C.
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