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Aunt Paulina and the Chest of Treasured Oddities
An elderly narrator recalls Aunt Paulina’s valued oddities including a Cosway miniature, an ostrich feather fan, a Geneva watch, a Polish painted olive wood box, and a faded Saviour carving. The wood box, pierced by a narrow augur, sparks a family joke about letting spiders out and becomes a symbol in a reminiscence of inheritance, reading aloud, and Poe era anecdotes.
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Adint
Paulina
Cosway
Geneva
Péter
Tim
United States Senate
Seneca Street
Lake Prout
Peter
Daniel Hawthorne
Ike Crab
Eddie Poe
Poe
Tye
Ligeia
Lixeta
Eddie
Tomance