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If only we could recapture those few seconds, it’d save all this argument and uncertainty, we’d know what it was.
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The speaker wishes they could revisit a brief past moment. Recovering those few seconds would settle the disagreement and remove uncertainty by showing exactly what happened or what the event was. The wording presents this as an imagined solution, not a claim that the moment can actually be recovered.
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