Arthur stared at the two buttons: Remind me later and Restart now .
Arthur leaned back. His heart was racing, but his mind suddenly went still. He looked at the beach photo. Margaret’s hair was blowing across her face. She was laughing at him for trying to build a sandcastle with a broken plastic shovel.
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On the screen, a small, rectangular notification box sat stubbornly in the center of his wallpaper—a photo of his late wife, Margaret, laughing on a beach in Maine.
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He laughed too. A sad, wet laugh.