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"Ah, Clara," the old man said softly. "She used to play here every weekend. A beautiful soul."

Elias turned. An older man, a painter selling watercolors by the edge of the fountain, was watching him. Elias showed him the video. The painter's eyes crinkled with recognition. IMG_1643MOV

"You look like you've seen a ghost," a voice said in accented English. "Ah, Clara," the old man said softly

Driven by a sudden, desperate need to reclaim his lost history, Elias uploaded a still frame of the woman to a reverse image search. After hours of scrolling through dead ends, a match popped up. It was a travel blog from a decade ago. The blogger had captured the same woman in the same square. The location was a small, hidden plaza in Lyon, France. An older man, a painter selling watercolors by