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Dead Letters to Tomorrow

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Edwin hesitated and pulled the note back out. Messing with his own day felt too risky. He decided to ask the slot a safer question instead, and wrote: 'What should I do today?' Then he held his breath and fed it in.

The slot answered with one line: 'Teach someone else before you forget.' So Edwin walked Rosa through every detail of the magic mail. The next morning his memory of it was foggy, but Rosa remembered everything, and the slot's secret was safe for one more day.

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