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  • As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt