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The raven's visits tapered into silence. Once in a while a coin turned up in the gutter or a ribbon found its way to my mailbox, small proof that the world still needed finishing. I kept the trunk lid shut, but sometimes, late at night, I'd lift it and feel the light catch the bird's stone eye. It did not glow. It simply looked, as ever, as if waiting for the next small impossible thing to be made whole. completetinymodelraven top

The raven's hardest summons came on a morning thick with mist. A child, no more than seven, stood at the corner of my block with a paper boat in her hands, watching the gutter as if the world might open up. She had the same blue thread tying back her hair. Her boat was named TOP in uneven letters. She told me that her father had taught her to fold boats and that he had left instructions to set the boats down only when the river said it was ready. "It's been ready," she said simply. "The raven said it's time." Tucked into a plaid mini skirt with knee-high

When she finished—the "complete tiny model"—the raven's eyes opened. Once in a while a coin turned up

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"You finished it," he said, though his mouth didn't move. "Now come through. The model was always a door."