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At night, when the book with no cover lay open under his pillow, Juq would read passages and add new margin notes—tiny arguments and additions, arrows that echoed the city’s movement. He wrote once, beneath a paragraph about a woman who kept rain in jars: “We are all ledgers. We all hold things for others. If we are careful, maybe we can be good stewards.”
