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It begins, as these things often do, not with a bang, but with a typo. dnrweqffuwjtx

"I didn't call you, Leo."

She whispered the string aloud. "Dnrweqffuwjtx." The string refused

And the string was gone.

Then her phone rang. It was her ex-husband, Leo, whom she hadn't spoken to in two years. as these things often do

The last thing she saw before the world folded like wet paper was her own reflection in the dark monitor.