The screen exploded in color. Not the gray of the storm outside, but the deep molten gold of a July evening. The camera panned across calm water. Gulls cried in the recording’s stereo sound. And there she was—Lila, twenty years younger, laughing as she spun around on the deck of his boat. Her hair wasn’t gray then. Her lungs were full of salt air, not fluid.
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