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Dear Nina, at this location in 1993, I found your album of photographs. Was our meeting a coincidence or destiny? We may never know. Still, destiny offers hope and welcomes possibilities—possibilities that reach the limits of imagination. I’m not a collector of other people’s photographs or memories. Yours were the first. And since 1993, they have taken me to places I wouldn’t have otherwise visited, introduced me to people I wouldn’t have met, and given me confidence that everything in our universe is connected—including the antique mall in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, where your photograph album was abandoned. The mall was there, and now it’s gone. You were here, and now you’re gone. I’m here, but inevitably…