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Love notes

A fragment penned in medieval french, using synthetic ink, on the tanned hide of an extinct Miocene North American camel.  The note was tucked into a battered ops manual on the bridge of a derelict Centauran frigate in orbit around Sirius. There were others. A 6,000-year-old pot sherd buried under 30 m of sand in Saudi Arabia. Mid-20th-century Spain, Paleolithic France, the Cretaceous of Montana, the Pleistocene of Saturn's rings, Deimos, Phobos, a cometary surface destroyed by ablation during the younger Dryas. There was just one thing to do.

I love you too
spelled out each spring
microbial bloom
equatorial gyre
newly discovered planet