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The Twenty Missing Minutes

Chapter 7

It Did Not Rain

She ordered the records on the Thursday.

It was an idea from her work: when a haulier claims he could not deliver because of the weather, you do not argue, you buy the official climate bulletin from the nearest station — eight euros, delivered within forty-eight hours, with a letterhead and a reference number.

She asked for the hourly precipitation from the Besançon-Thise station from the first to the fifteenth of October.

The document arrived on the Saturday morning in her inbox.

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