The numbering system on the back of 169 Women Catalogued takes as its model the hand-written Dewey decimal labels ubiqitous in libraries of my youth. While some form of logic no doubt underlies Melvil Dewey's system, it's one I never gleened but, instead, memorized for favorite sections. In my imitation of it, the woman's birthday makes up the bottom line--8.15.54, in the above image. She was 43 years, 3 months, and 20 days old when I received her face imprints.

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