A new dialog box appeared:

But as he read the engineered version of his life, he felt something hollow out his chest. The app had removed the parts where he cried in the bathroom at 3 a.m. It had deleted the summer he built a kite with Mira that wouldn’t fly — and they laughed anyway. It had erased the memory of Elena brushing his hair back after a panic attack, saying nothing, just being there .

And then the app made its move.

The screen went black.