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"What'd you guys talk about?"
"Old stuff, mostly. Stuff from before. She remembered the homecoming bonfire, the hot chocolate thing, all these little details I didn't even think she'd held onto." I felt myself smiling just talking about it. "It felt like getting a piece of something back that I thought was gone for good."
"That's really nice." A pause, small, deliberate, before she added, lightly, almost as an afterthought. "Did she say anything about the other guy? Whether she's gotten any closer to figuring out who it was?"