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This story begins with a picture I took at a Copenhagen art gallery last week. The fire alarm had gone off, and the Sunday crowd had evacuated in a rush leaving the white cupboard doors of the locker room randomly ajar.

The numbers on the doors, the keys in the locks made me think about the years I've lived through, and those still to come.

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