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The virtual machine loaded.

I reached for the mouse.

And she chose to let me be, instead of coming back. The virtual machine loaded

That night, I dreamed in code. Not symbols— words . Variables named doubt , faith , loss . Functions called remember( ) and forget( ) . And at the center of the dream, a stack trace three miles deep, pointing to a null reference where my childhood should have been. instead of coming back. That night