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For years my grandmother and I wrote to each other across the water, one letter a month, never more. When she died I found she had kept every one of mine, folded into narrow strips. I started folding her letters the same way, and then I started building: a lighthouse, waist-high, made of nothing but our correspondence wound around a wire frame.
The lamp inside is a single warm bulb. When it is lit you can read fragments of both our handwritings glowing through the paper walls — her recipes interleaved with my homesickness, her weather reports with my apologies for not calling. A lighthouse is supposed to warn you away from the shore. Ours invites you in.