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Elena looked from the photo of the laughing girls to the woman sitting beside her. The clothes were gone, and the beach cottage had been sold years ago, but the bond forged in those ridiculous, sun-soaked summers remained completely unchanged.

"Oh my gosh, I forgot about that dress," Clara groaned, burying her face in her hand. "It was 100% polyester. I think I almost got heatstroke on the porch that day."

"But we thought we were the height of fashion," Elena reminded her, nudging her shoulder. "We walked into the diner that afternoon and demanded the best booth. The owner just gave us free milkshakes because he thought we were eccentric rich girls." promiscuous_sisters_094.jpg

Clara laughed, the sound echoing the girl in the photo. "Only if I get to find matching giant sunglasses."

Elena stared at the photo. In it, she and her sister, Clara, were eighteen and twenty. They were standing on the sun-drenched porch of their family’s old beach cottage. They were wearing oversized sunglasses, bright, mismatched vintage dresses, and heels they could barely walk in. Elena was sticking her tongue out at the camera, while Clara was laughing mid-sentence, her head thrown back, holding a plastic cup of bright red fruit punch. Elena looked from the photo of the laughing

She turned another delicate page, and there it was. Handwritten in white ink against the black cardstock was the label promiscuous_sisters_094.jpg .

"I miss that porch," Elena whispered. "I miss how big everything felt." "It was 100% polyester

It was a digital file name written in a physical book, a strange relic of the mid-2000s when their father had obsessively cataloged every digital photograph they took, printing them out and archiving them like museum artifacts.