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Genizah

For Jakob Stein

Item, copies of Italian Citizenship de jure sanguinis application along with grandfather’s original Naturalization papers, father’s birth certificate with misspellings of proper names and surnames, and grandmother’s passport featuring her “naso aquilino”—won’t need them where I’m going.

Item, long metal box of slides made by father in the 1950s, no slide projector anyway.

Item, loose b/w photos of 1950s family life, may be dropped down the hatch and watched as they scatter, like

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