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One card and one story every other Sunday, with the handwriting transcribed.
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The sentence someone crossed out
A November card from 1931, and the line its writer tried to remove.
Finds
Eleven cards from one table
What a single flea-market table gave me, and the five messages I could read.
Sorting
Sorting by colour, one afternoon
Blue, sepia, green and red: a long table, a tray of cards, a surprise.
Lisbon
Tiles on the card, tiles on the wall
A card of a tiled facade, and the afternoon I went looking for the real one.
Handwriting
Reading a loop that looks like an f
The long s, the closed a and other shapes that fool a modern reader.
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One card and one story every other Sunday, with the handwriting transcribed.