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Two letters caught mid-kiss, refusing to be seen apart any longer.

ampersand origin& is a ligature of Latin 'et,' meaning and
surgical senseA tied thread that strangles a bleeding vessel shut
music tooCurved line binding notes into one sustained breath
lost letteræ and œ are fused vowels English mostly abandoned
typography fixBorn to stop 'fi' from colliding ugly
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