I clicked .
I checked Chrome. Firefox. Edge (why do I even have Edge?). I checked my work laptop, my phone, my old tablet that takes ten minutes to boot up. I searched "bookmarks" in every cloud drive. I whispered to Alexa, "Where are my bookmarks?" She played a song by The Beatles.
Panic set in.
Still nothing.
Defeated, I opened my browser history.
I searched for that folder.
You know. Just in case.
Then I remembered: last week, I had "cleaned up" my bookmarks. I had created a new system. A beautiful, logical system of nested folders.