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The cursor blinked on the dark screen, patient and indifferent. Searching for- alycia starr in-All CategoriesMo...
Jenna clicked Images first. Alycia at a protest in Portland, 2017. Alycia behind a counter at a record store that closed four years ago. Alycia in a faded green sweatshirt, arm around someone whose face was blurred for privacy. Jenna zoomed in on the sweatshirt. She’d bought that for Alycia at a flea market. She remembered the vendor saying, “This’ll outlive you.”
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Videos showed a low-quality clip of Alycia playing an open mic. The sound was terrible, the guitar slightly out of tune. Jenna watched it three times. Alycia’s fingers moved like water over the strings.
She sat in the dark for a long time, listening to the refrigerator hum. Then she opened the search again. Not for Alycia this time. She typed: Alycia at a protest in Portland, 2017
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