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# Retrieve Messages Using Waku Store
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When running a web dApp or a mobile phone application,
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internet can be unreliable disconnect.
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[Waku Relay](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/18/) is a gossip protocol.
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As a user, it means that your peers send you messages they just received,
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and you in turn forward these messages.
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If you cannot be reached by your peers, then messages are not relayed;
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relay peers do not save messages for later.
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However, [store](https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/13/) peers to save messages they relayed,
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allowing you to retrieve messages you may have missed.
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In this guide, we'll review how you can use Waku Store to retrieve messages when loading the dApp
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or after resuming connectivity.
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