Stacked photos in LR

Greetings,
I had worked on a photo for LR in Silver Effects Pro. The photo in LR showed that there were 2 photos stacked together but I tried to unstack them and I can not find the photo I saved after working on it in SE. Thanks for any help on this.
Glenn Bailey

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