You might recall a bunch of stories from early in the pandemic about packets of mystery seeds arriving at domestic addresses across the US. The packets were sent from China, often labelled as jewellery and there was a ton of speculation at the time about bio-terrorism or other nefarious activities.**

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In ThePalace(OfLove), we don’t have mystery seeds, we have a mystery pencil sharpener.

An Amazon padded envelope arrived on Saturday addressed to Don and contained – a single faber-castell pencil sharpener.

The sharpener isn’t branded with any corporate logo. There is no sender name, no packing slip, and the tracking number goes nowhere.

We would never knowingly purchase products from amazon (let’s gloss over all those kindle books), so highly unlikely to have been an order we placed.

Just … a mysterious mystery.

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** Resolved a year later after some crack investigative journalism.