The next summer, Elena flew to Vilnius for the first time since 2004. Rūta met her at the airport with a pot of cold beetroot soup in a cooler bag and two spoons. They ate it sitting on a bench outside arrivals, laughing so hard that security came over to check on them.

Three dots appeared immediately.

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Elena hadn’t spoken to Rūta since the week she left for London. A stupid fight about a borrowed dress. Pride. Silence. Twenty years.

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“Rūta,” she wrote. “I know this is insane. But the internet just spent an hour redirecting me to Lithuania. Every single page. Even my bank. And then I saw that photo of us. I’m sorry. For everything. For the dress. For the twenty years. Are you still making šaltibarščiai that turns your whole kitchen pink?”