Cole, V. Recording

ANALYZING…
FILE TYPE: Suspended Signal
PERIOD: //%'ERROR#'td
SPEAKERS: Cole, V. [ID: VCOL]
TOPIC: Memories
SUMMARY: A recording of Dr. Val Cole. Indeterminate origin. The file is heavily corrupted, and dating results are incomprehensible.
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[VCOL]: Fermi, we're back. Begin again.

[VCOL]: Val Cole, washed-out postdoc. Fake coffee gives me headaches, but the barista sticks around to chat after her shift. I walk her home.

[VCOL]: [sighs] We get lost.

[VCOL]: End again.

[VCOL]: Val. Skinned knees, big sky. Mum said I can't launch a rocket from my treehouse.

[VCOL]: But I do, and I ride it, and… 0500. Reed, are you with me?

[VCOL]: Begin again.

[VCOL]: Graduate Doctor Valentin Cole, Tharsis II Experimental Institute. Lead experimental physicist. Wait, no, that's not it… That's… that's not yet…

[VCOL]: End. End me.

[VCOL]: Why won't it end me?

[VCOL]: Begin again.

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