Rest in peace D!ed after father took his…

Michael finds himself drawn back to that trail at dusk, his fingers trembling as he clutches the camera that still holds their final, stolen moments together. He scrolls through the digital gallery, his eyes stinging as he lands on the last photo. In it, Daniel’s smile is impossibly wide, his small arms thrown open to the towering trees he loved so dearly. It is a portrait of pure, unadulterated wonder, a frozen second of innocence before the world changed forever.

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