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Die Souvenirs ohne Herkunft

Follow a traveller who checks a souvenir's claimed origin instead of treating a persuasive local story as proof. 923 words

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Comprehension quiz

What assumption about the souvenir does the narrator put under scrutiny?
What does the market enquiry actually establish?
What distinction does Mara preserve in explaining her wooden leaves?
Why does the narrator avoid telling their mother a special local symbolism for the leaf?
Why does Ivo's lower price fail to address the narrator's main reason for hesitating?
What limit does the narrator retain when passing Ivo's stall again?