Word spread quickly at the market when the umbrella was opened. A child shrieked with delight when a paper star fell from the canopy and unfolded into a paper bird that hopped on her finger. An old teacher pressed the map-paper to her chest and sighed; something inside her straightened. A pair of quarrelsome brothers gripped opposite ends of a map and found themselves laughing at the same joke, the memory in the umbrella knitting a laughter-stitch between them.

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