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i found your terminal left open
still running a 2400 baud echo
"type exit or press any key" --
but you didn't. you never do.

the logs say you uploaded a file called love.asc
3kb. 1994. just a heart made of cp437 blocks
and some words i can't read because the screen ate them.
like or but the modem chewed the edges.

i ran it anyway. crashed the bbs.
left a dead cat art on the login screen.
someone reported me. sysop laughed.
he still does. he's just a script now. loops forever.

your call waited 12 hours to connect.
by then the line was dead.
i told the static you'd call back tomorrow.
i told the static a lot of things.

the phone company cut the line in '97.
we buried the modem in the backyard
next to the floppy with your voice on it.
digging up the drive was easy.
your voice wasn't.

i keep trying to re-dial.
the tone says .
i keep trying.

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(attachment: ghost.mod -- load at your own risk.
might eat your prompt.
might not.)

-- iNK$tAiN
"made a thing."
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