You're finally drifting off at 11:47 p.m. when your brain decides it's the perfect moment to remind you that in 2015 you said "you too" when someone told you happy birthday. Your eyes snap open. You lie there for twenty minutes replaying it in HD, constructing elaborate scenarios where that person is still thinking about it, probably telling people. By midnight you've invented an alternate timeline where you moved to a different country to escape the shame. You turn over, close your eyes, and your brain whispers: *remember that one?* — and produces three new ones you'd successfully buried.