I Supported My Son For Years Then They Tried To Question My Stability – The Archivist

like toner and old paper, the particular archival smell of a place where the past is stored in an orderly fashion and is, by law, available to anyone who wants to look at it. The sign in the lobby says ALL RECORDS ARE PUBLIC in the matter-of-fact way of an institution that considers this self-evident.

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