Maybe it’s a product code. Maybe it’s a password to a digital drawer that no longer exists. Or maybe it’s just a random string someone wrote and forgot.

At first, I thought: a date . 06/10/17 — but October 6th, 2017? Or June 10th, 2017? Then the “-538” — a room number? A lock combination? A case file?

So I’ll leave it here, in this post, like a message in a bottle.

For me, is a reminder that not everything needs an immediate explanation. Some things are allowed to stay cryptic. Some stories are meant to be incomplete.

— Found in the margins