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"In the story, the main protagonist is a woman. It feels like the events are happening in the present during the entire story, but then right at the end of the story we find out that the events were actually in the past and she is recollecting those events for us as the readers. There was a lot of water in the story, I think they were by a beach or a lake or something. I believe the characters may have drowned at the end? Not sure"