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Aesthetics
The damage you would keep
What is one small damage you have deliberately chosen to keep — a missing letter, a crack, an unfinished repair — because fixing it would erase something true? Describe the thing and what the damage keeps alive.
Restoration can preserve an object while erasing part of what makes it yours.
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