A wax seal · The Atlas
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O Caixote
Luanda · Lisbon, 1938–2003
“Returned to where?”
While it was shut, we still lived there.
Luanda, 1975: a household 'returned' by the airlift to a Portugal it had never seen, and a crate that took eighteen months to arrive — and was not opened for twenty-six years. While it stayed shut, they still lived there.
On the Atlas, this seal is pressed only for a reader who gathers every scattered fragment of this life and binds them together. Earn it, and it is kept on your ribbons.