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she told him, “or I will misplace your coat until summer.”
“Done,” he said, and wrote it, because some women get to write with a man’s hand.
The Concordat, revised in grease and chalk, was passed around the room not like a relic but like a menu being corrected by cooks. People added marginalia: Soup where Hospitality had been. Rail where Bell had tried to be. Dogs where Order had preened. The donor from the Fund signed one clause with an onion fingerprint and laughed at herself as if salvation had been achieved by accident.
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