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Welcome (or, if you have been here before, welcome again — please do not feel any obligation to start over, the matches you find today are the ones that count) to the public gopher of the Birdsall-Munk Memorial Museum of Civic Ephemera. The spelling is ephemera, which means the things that mattered briefly, like a receipt, and then did not. My wife's nephew Cale wanted to spell it EPHEMORA on the road sign in 1991 and I let him because he had taken a half-day off work to drive the sign over and I did not want to make a fuss.
This menu (0/MEMORY_PAIRS) contains fourteen catalog cards laid face down. They form seven pairs. Each pair was donated together, usually because two siblings divided an estate and neither wanted the items but neither wanted to be the one to put them in the bin. When you match a pair I will tell you about it below. I will try not to tell you too much. I cannot promise this — it is the only time anyone asks.
(Instructions: click two cards. If they share a catalog number they remain face up. If they do not, they turn back over and you may try again. There is no scoring. There is no timer. There is, technically, an end.)
0/ CURATOR_NOTE_07.TXT (restricted — you asked)
You typed it. I noticed. The honest answer is that I do not know if the museum was a good idea. The town voted in 1989 to fund it for two years and then forgot to defund it, which is how most things continue. I keep coming because someone has to turn the lights on, and because the items were entrusted, and because if no one walks in I am still here with them and they are not alone, which I have come to suspect is the actual point of a museum, although it is not the point I am supposed to say out loud. Anyway. Thank you for asking. The light by the door is on a timer.