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It forces us to ask: What happens to the parts of ourselves we leave behind? When we lose touch with the person we were ten years ago, we lose a volume of our archive. We become a corrupted file, unable to access the full version of our own story. 4. The Beauty of the "CRC Error"

We live in an age of "split volumes." Our identities are partitioned across social media profiles, professional resumes, private journals, and the fading memories of people we used to know. We are, essentially, a collection of .001 , .002 , and .003 files. 219.7z.001

In the world of data, is a "split volume." It is the first chapter of a book whose remaining pages are scattered across different hard drives or lost to the void of deleted cache. It forces us to ask: What happens to