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The Map of Small Disasters

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I pulled the goggles on and went under. A few feet down, something glinted on a shallow rock shelf — a small metal locket, green with age. I grabbed it and kicked back up, gasping. Reyes hauled me in. 'She always wondered if it was still there,' he whispered.

I opened the locket on the boat. Inside was a tiny photo of my mom, young and smiling, holding a baby — me — wrapped in a blanket. On the back, in Grandma's writing: 'Where we almost lost you, and didn't.' I finally understood the star. I cried the whole way back to shore.

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