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ground.news slash 2026. Hello, it's Basha Cummings here.
I was the editor of Sweet Bobby,
and I'm here because I want to play you a story that was first told to me by my colleague Eva Wiseman.
It starts with a mislaid phone and a missing shoe,
and it quickly consumes both her life and the man to whom it all happened, a man that we're calling Ali.
If you want to hear more stories like it, you can find it on our weekly narrative series, The Slow Newscast.
But for now, I'm going to hand over to Eva.
So I should first say Ali is not his real name.