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The photos were published six months later, in the spring of 2020. Clover saw them on a screen in her childhood bedroom, where she had fled when the world stopped. Her body looked beautiful, she supposed. But that wasn’t what she saw. She saw the space between her and Natalia. The negative shape. The trust that had passed through skin into air.

The room was a cube of diffused northern light. White walls, pale floor, a single Monstera plant in the corner like a green witness. October 29, 2019. A Tuesday. The world outside still believed in before. Hegre.19.10.29.Clover.And.Natalia.A.Nude.Yoga.I

Then she left.