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Closed the tab with a small sense of finality rather than the usual rushed exit, and a stop at ravendockartisanbazaar produced the same considered closing, when reading ends with deliberate satisfaction rather than impatient skip you know the time was well spent and this site is producing those satisfying endings consistently across what I read.