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Intervallum Unius Metri

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Institute Pharmacy · Dispensary No. 1

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Rx #53,101 Public Life & Strangers

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Intervallum Unius Metri

(One-Meter Interval, maintained)

Dosage	One (1) meter of physical distance maintained in all conversations, enforced by the patient's own backward step when the conversation partner advances
Frequency	Per conversation
Duration	Lifelong
Refills	Unlimited — the wall is, apparently, not the goal

Side effects May include the specific loneliness of a conversation held at actual distance, the phantom urge to lean forward for emphasis, and — critically — the observation that the slow-waltz-across-the-room dynamic had, apparently, been patient-led the entire time.

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Prescribed for

The Institute dispenses Intervallum Unius Metri for:

Pathological personal-space encroachment
The 18-centimeter conversational standing distance
The specific advance-when-they-retreat pattern that has backed colleagues into copiers

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Prescription Intervallum Unius Metri belongs to the Institute Pharmacy's catalog of non-pharmacological interventions. The dosage is fictional. The intervention it describes is not. Patients who follow it tend to observe the predicted side effects.

The pharmacy's plain-language rendering is One-Meter Interval, maintained. The Latin is for the slip; the English reading is for filling it at home.

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