Mara walked out into the night with the city lights feeling newly edited. The argument inside her wasn't whether the update had changed facts — it had not erased the past — but whether smoothing the ragged edges made those facts truer or just easier. Over the next days snippets returned to her with altered tones: the smell of coffee in the morning now buzzed with a soundtrack from a movie she'd seen years ago, and the break-up that had hollowed her out had a different punctuation, as if someone had rewritten the last sentence of a painful chapter.

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