Crossing the seam back to the studio felt like waking from a dream into a house where someone else had been living for a while. The Marvel lay where I’d left it, inert but warm, its crack closed into merely a seam. On the floor the cassette sat like any other object, yet when I touched it I could still feel the shade of that folding room—Ana’s laugh, the low hum of the piano turned on its side. But other things were missing: I could no longer remember the face of the neighbor who used to borrow sugar, the exact shape of the streetlight outside my window, the pattern my father used to whistle.

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