The Template Paragraph

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The Template Paragraph

Ade wanted the pen off the page.

Lewis had the supplier's sustainability certificate open in a signing folder. The paragraph about a closed loop sat there as if print were proof. Ade had walked that floor. The loop was a sentence. Scraps the paragraph sent back into the work were bagged for a truck. A young man on the line, helpful until the question got specific, had said the wording came from a template they had been handed, and had then found something urgent to do with his hands. The client wanted a certificate in the file. Lewis wanted the file more than he wanted an argument.

Ade set two fingers on the folder, lightly, only to keep it from being signed while he spoke.

"Don't sign that," he said. "The paragraph is borrowed. I asked where the scraps go back in.