Sometimes records are kept on forms with with small print. Read that print–it’s the question the person was actually answering and that might not be what you necessarily think it is at first glance. And when the clerk squeezes a word in a form? They are not trying to show how small they can write? Annotations and comments added in minuscule handwriting can be bigger clues than the rest of the entire record.
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