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A clue?

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It was during a walk around what used to be called "Ground Zero" in New York City that I found this very odd picture. It was back in August 2003 during my high school graduation holiday in NYC. I went back to Ground Zero that afternoon and I was walking along the site - there were so many people there that day - when I somehow noticed this picture on the ground. I picked it up and looked at the back: there was a stamp - now almost faded - that said "August 2000". I thought, why is this picture here, 3 years later? Here in Ground Zero? But that wasn't the oddest part in this whole story. This picture looks weird, actually. It is very tiny and it doesn't look anything like a picture printed in 2000. It looks like it was printed in the 70s or 80s and I know that because it instantly reminded me of my parents' pictures and my own pictures from when I was little. I used to have pictures of myself (now lost) printed on that kind of paper, and with the same