She went to the website again. bride.ru was gone. The domain was for sale. She searched her browser history—nothing. No record of the ad, no profile, no messages. Only her own sent emails, all to a dead address: alexei.noreply@bride.ru.
She tried to search for Alexei’s late wife. There was no obituary. No cemetery record. No Yulia. bride.ru
She asked him one evening, carefully, over the pancakes he made every Sunday. “Lex, where is Yulia buried?” She went to the website again