001 · Authentication Note
Provenance
Surfaced separately from the sketchbook catalogued as CF-020 — different custody chain, different decade of recovery. It was not sought out to complete that case. It was flagged afterward, once cataloguers noticed the overlap.
Why authorship is disputed
The manuscript opens on events the subject is not shown to have witnessed. The archive does not resolve whether that opening is memory, report, or invention. It does not establish a family history.
Restriction — Article I, Section 3
This manuscript states directly and repeatedly what it believes was present with her, and gives it a name. That is a claim the archive does not confirm, cannot confirm, and is not structured to evaluate. It is preserved here as belief, not as evidence of the Signal's nature.
002 · Selected Excerpts
Two passages, chosen because they touch CF-020. The manuscript in full is not reproduced here. The opening is withheld.
middle section, unnumbered page
"...I don't think whatever this is only wanted me. I think it's patient. I think there were others before me who didn't have the word for it yet."
The only line in the manuscript that gestures toward CF-019 or any case beyond its own subject. Presented as a feeling, not a finding. The manuscript names no other subject and offers nothing an archivist can verify.
closing pages
"...she did not become someone who did what had been done to her. She became someone who could look directly at it and not need anyone's permission to keep the record straight."
Compare to CF-020's final entry: "Not the girl it happened to. Just the one keeping the record straight." Close enough to note, not close enough to call the same hand.
003 · Relationship to Case Files
CF-019
No shared name, location, or object. Shares only the unprompted self-descriptor "curator," arrived at independently.
CF-020
Same subject, by inference — the manuscript's closing language closely mirrors CF-020's own final entry. The manuscript adds background the sketchbook does not contain. That background is not treated as fact.
Not resolved
Whether the manuscript is the subject's own retrospective account, a family reconstruction, or a work of fiction written about her afterward. All three remain open.
004 · Archivist's Closing Note
This register exists to connect two documents already in the archive, not to elevate a third into equal standing with them. The archive has more material now. It does not have more certainty.