A Chain of Clips

I didn't stop at two. Sitting right in the middle of the dark cabinet shelf, I kept threading one silver paperclip through the loop of the next. Each bend hooked in with a tiny, predictable snap. No sudden tricks, no shifting floors—just plain wire holding together. I pulled both ends taut with my mittens to test the tension. It held firm, dangling all the way down to the plastic divider below. Finding something that stays exactly where you put it is... well, it's nice.

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