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He returns home in a daze, her laughter and smile replaying in his mind.
But seeing her picture in the obituary of the dead chills him to the core.
It can't be true, they just met!
Confused and distraught, he searches the local library for answers.
Rummaging through old papers, he finds the tragic report: she had died exactly five years ago today, the same age he was when he met her.
Yet their meeting seems so real to him.
That night, gazing at her photograph in the candlelight, he feels a warm presence.