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It wasn't a professional shot. It was grainy, slightly overexposed by a setting sun, and framed poorly. It showed a wooden pier stretching into a lake that looked like liquid gold. In the bottom left corner, a blurry hand was held up in a peace sign—belonging to Sarah.

Leo didn't close the gallery. Instead, he tapped the "Share" button and began typing a message he should have sent years ago: “Found this in my old files. Remember the lake?” Download IMG 20220829 WA0007 jpeg

The notification sat at the top of Leo’s screen like a digital riddle: It wasn't a professional shot

He realized he had never actually saved the photo back then; it had just sat in the cloud of a forgotten chat thread, a ghost waiting for someone to call it back to the physical world. In the bottom left corner, a blurry hand