Up all night thinking of a large expanse of land a young man has recently inherited. The whole area covered in orange trees, and in each orange, a short message from his father. The messages seem meaningless, scrambled, the last gesture of a lost man, but only because he’s eating them in the wrong order.

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Daguerreologue

n.

an imaginary conversation with an old photo of yourself, in which you might offer them a word of advice—to banish your worries, soak it all in, or shape up before it’s too late—or maybe just ask them if they thought you had done justice to the life they built for you.