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"Yeah, I think so," a man’s voice answered from behind the lens. "I can't tell if the red light is on."

He played it again. And again. He became obsessed with the twelve seconds of someone else's "legendary" moment. Who were they? Did they ever bake the pie? Why was this the fourth version of the video?

One rainy Tuesday, curiosity got the better of him. He double-clicked. video1 (4)mp4

"If this works," she said, "we’re going to be legends. Or at least, the best pie-makers in the county." The video cut to black. It was only twelve seconds long.

Elias checked the file properties. The date modified was years before he had even bought this computer. He had no memory of the woman, the man, or the kitchen. He had inherited the hard drive from a refurbished electronics shop three towns over. "Yeah, I think so," a man’s voice answered

The file was gone, but for the first time, it was exactly where it belonged.

"Is it running?" she asked, her voice crackling through cheap speakers. He became obsessed with the twelve seconds of

Three weeks later, he got a message. “That’s my mother,” it read. “And my father was the one filming. He died before he could ever finish the edit. We thought all the footage was lost when their house flooded in '05.”