We receive many letters, but this one from a woman named Delphine stayed with us. She wrote: ‘Before your visit I had a table covered in forty small things. After your visit I had a table. I did not know a table could look like that. I wept. I swept. I wept again.’
She continued: ‘You removed a candle, a tin of buttons, a figurine of a frog, a bowl of keys and my husband’s reading glasses. He has not forgiven you. I have never been happier.’
We keep the letter in a drawer. We have not yet knocked it out. We are not ready.
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