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The Cutting Edge of Paper

So you're getting married!  Or you have another amazing and awe-inspiring event to dress and impress.  You've set the date, the venue, decided on the all-important colour scheme (or color for my fellow Americans).  You've settled on lovely, hand written calligraphy for your envelopes and placecards, and have found the most delightful glossy paper with a pearly sheen made from the tears of mermaids.  Your ballpoint pen seems to write on them fine enough, so surely a more sophisticated style of writing will have no problem, right?

Would that it were so!

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