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She screamed into her pillow.

She pressed "Start Video."

The machine had asked her to identify herself. But Maya realized, as dawn cracked through the blinds, that the machine had never known her at all. Facebook.com Login Identify

Then:

But in the silence, she heard her son breathing in the next room. She felt the weight of her own hands in her lap. She screamed into her pillow

She clicked the link. The official Facebook recovery page loaded. Step one: enter your email. Step two: upload a photo of your ID. Step three: wait.

It was 2:00 AM, and Maya’s thumb hovered over the blue "Log In" button. The words beneath it seemed to pulse on her cracked phone screen: as dawn cracked through the blinds

“Processing,” the screen said.