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Maxie nods understandingly.

"Your grandmother was my neighbor practically my whole life, up until she moved away—don't you remember running over the road to knock on our door? You and Tobias used to—you must remember my son Tobias? You were just about the same age. He used to get so excited when you would come visit your grandma, you'd both play together for hours."

There's so much to take in all of a sudden that you can't think how to reply. Bit by bit, however, little pieces of memory flutter back to life—and none clearer than the image of yourself on the ground, helping to boost a boy onto the wall in Grandma's yard so he could jump off into a pile of leaves. Just like that, the picture of the mystery kid on your grandma's computer comes to life in your mind's eye, and you can't think how you had ever forgotten your friend Toby from over the road.

Which means—

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