The most unbearable and disorienting part of grief is its finality. The further away Eli felt, the more I wanted to draw him back to earth, back to life.
I was desperate for Eli to be 27, for my sake and his. I asked myself: What if you could recreate Eli's voice? What if she could have one last conversation with him? I don't consider myself a tech-savvy person, but as a member of Generation Z I'm also no stranger to the various capabilities, tools, and developments of machine learning.