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I visited the town. Old fishermen spat memories and superstition. They spoke of a girl who listened to the sea the way others listened to hymns, who collected sea-glass and would sometimes leave small offerings—a scrap of ribbon, a carefully wrapped stone—on the dunes. A woman in a white scarf remembered Yuko bringing her a jar filled with "the color of a storm." "She couldn't stand to see things thrown away," the woman said. "She wanted them to be seen." Back in the city I found myself at the municipal archives, a place of cataloged absence. In a manila folder labeled "Community Arts — 2016" lay a thin packet of letters addressed to "Y. Shiraki." One letter was from an unknown correspondent who spoke of regret and wanting to return something that had been taken. Another was a postcard of a lighthouse with only two words: "Forgive me."