The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The request form was Form 7-B, the one with the jagged edges that tore if you didn’t handle it with the specific, dry gentleness that the Ministry required of its lowest clerks, and I filled it out in triplicate, my handwriting cramped and precise, because I knew that if I made a single error, if a loop of the letter 'e' was too wide or the ink bled into the paper’s grain, Senior Archivist...

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