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The First Envelope

On a rainy night, an envelope with no sender slides under the door of Hollis Photo Repair. Inside are ten torn photographs, and the first one is of the shop itself.

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A small photo-repair shop on a narrow street at night in the rain, its bay window full of framed photographs, paper lanterns strung overhead.

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A young woman at a photo-repair workbench at night, piecing together a torn photograph under a brass lamp.

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The Mender of Lantern Street

Seventeen-year-old Mira Hollis has taken over her grandmother's photo-repair shop on Lantern Street. Ada, once a travelling photographer, now lives in a care home and remembers less each week. Then the envelopes start arriving: no sender, postmarks from Kyoto, Paris and Lisbon, and inside, Ada's own photographs, torn to pieces. In almost every one, a man in a grey coat stands at the edge of the frame.

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