Okay but remember when there was a national panic over mystery Chinese seeds being delivered and everyone just forgot that . . . they had ordered them?

(CW - article is from The Atlantic, and it takes many circuitous routes and something like 7500 words to eventually realize the truth.)

Culley ordered those seeds herself, Amazon told me. I took this with a grain of salt.

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At least one packet seemed to be exactly what Culley had paid for.

This sent me into something of a tailspin. Initially, I had dismissed Amazon’s explanation, and I had cherry-picked Culley’s experience to prove the company wrong. That had backfired. But surely what Amazon was saying couldn’t be generally true? How could so many people have ordered seeds and then forgotten? And why would so many seed packets start arriving in a sudden surge?