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Digital memories are strange like that. We tuck our most profound moments into folders named by machines. We let a "Live Photo" capture the three seconds of jittery movement before the shutter clicks—the fixing of a collar, the nervous glance, the indrawn breath.

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When we finally scroll back, we aren’t looking for the file name. We are looking for the light. We are looking for the version of ourselves that existed before the timestamp. That string of numbers is just a lock; the image is the key to a room we forgot we could still enter. Digital memories are strange like that