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The box arrived on Thursday with your handwriting on the outside and no note inside, which I understood. I have been sitting with it for two days at the desk by the window, taking things out and putting them back in a different order, which is not organizing, I know.

The thimble is the one that fits. I did not expect that — you could not have known, and I did not know until I tried it — but the middle finger on my right hand is apparently her middle finger too, and the small dome sits on the knuckle the way something that has been worn sits, which is to say it does not feel like wearing.

I have not used it yet. I am not sure I will. I have taken it off three times to look at it and put it back on, which is a small embarrassment I am telling you about because you sent it and because the telling is part of what I owe.

The windfall word keeps arriving for this. I did not earn the box and did not ask and it came down from a branch I was not standing under. I am trying to let it be that and not something I have to answer for.

Write back when you can. Or don't — the box was already the letter.

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