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The ARC Time Machine

He emails the Architectural Review Committee a patio request and settles in to wait. Leaves fall, snow comes, spring returns, and the committee is still reviewing. He grows a beard. The kids get taller, then pack their boxes and go. By the time the reply lands — APPROVED, stamped in green — he is white-haired, the folder is falling apart, and the backyard has been roped off as an archaeological dig with a dinosaur in it. Response time: one geological era.

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