in weird clothes, had made me put on weird clothes too. We’d snuck out of the house and ended up at the arch and she helped me crawl over the gate. I remember the moon being very bright, and I remember being nervous about breaking the rules when she tugged me past the DO NOT CROSS barrier.

But she was insistent. She told me to remember a number - 1920. She made me repeat it over and over.

That’s the last thing I remember.

My dad filled in the rest.

He says he came out of the woods at the moment that we’d started to fade and screamed my name. He says that I let go of her hand and walked towards him. I probably thought I was doing the right thing, I probably thought I was helping him to come with us so that we could be together. But my dad said that...

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