She highlighted Clear data and pressed power. A submenu appeared: Wipe data (factory reset). She pressed again. A warning scrolled past: This will erase all data from your phone’s internal storage. Are you sure?

She selected Reboot .

She thought of her grandmother’s voice notes. The unfinished novel in her notes app. She thought of the cat photo.

“You already lost it if you can’t turn it on,” he said, not unkindly.

She selected Confirm .